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Normas o consejos de pronunciación. // Rules or advice about pronunciation
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How to predict the pronunciation of the letters "b", "v", and "h"?
There are some variations between accents, so you’ll have to be more specific (e.g. link to audio) to know exactly why what you hear isn’t what you expect.
However, there is one point that I think ma …
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Difference between «b» and «v» in practice
Your summary seems not quite accurate.
In reality, there is variation, not a single absolute rule. Supposedly, some Spanish speakers even distinguish a [b] sound from a labiodental [v] sound—for examp …
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Why is the [z] sound in Spanish so uncommon compared to other languages?
Like Portuguese, French, or Italian, the Spanish language used to have /z/ (more narrowly, [z̺]) as the pronunciation of S between vowels in the middle of words (as in Old Spanish espeso [esˈpezo] 'sp …
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Words which palatalise when made feminine?
As pablodf76's answer says, this comes from a historical neutralization of the contrasts /ɲ/ vs. /n/ and /ʎ/ vs. /l/ in syllable-final position. (From what I remember, a similar neutralization happene …
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Pronunciation spelling in "Ejpaña"
España would only have an interdental fricative [θ] in an accent with ceceo.
More typically, it would have an alveolar sibilant [s].
But in many accents of Spanish, /s/ at the end of a syllable is tur …
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Is there "liaison" in Spanish?
Disclaimer: I am not a Spanish speaker, nor have I studied Spanish to any real extent. (I've done some self-study via textbooks and online apps/websites like Duolingo.) However, I know a bit about Spa …