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Preguntas sobre fonología. La fonología estudia los elementos fónicos, o unidades, de una lengua desde el punto de vista de su función.
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Does the vowel combination /ou/ appear in any Spanish words?
Spanish has many diphthongs, but I have never noticed 'ou' appearing in a word except for bou (a Catalan loanword), the surname Bousoño, and the Kantian term noúmeno.
The sound does occur across word …
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When did "x" start representing /ks/ in Spanish again?
If I've understood correctly, Spanish phonology underwent this change from Latin with respect to the sound /ks/:
⟨x⟩ /ks/ → ⟨x⟩ /ʃ/ → ⟨x⟩ /ʃ/ ↘
⟨j⟩ /x/
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Why does "diezmar" have a diphthong, and do similar verbs exist?
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Diezmar is a more modern version of dezmar, meaning "to decimate".
Many verbs undergo diphthongization in their conjugations when stressed syllables fall on historic vowels /ɛ/ /ɔ/ from La …
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Do any dialects of Spanish still pronounce "h"?
In most dialects of Spanish, "h" is a silent letter (except when appearing in the digraph "ch" or loanwords e.g. hámster). Indeed the RAE notes that in standard Spanish it is silent.
But this letter …
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