16:1716:17, 22 February 2023diffhist+517
Yeísmo
This article implied that the pronunciation of /ll/ as /zh/ in Andean Ecuador is the product of contact with Kichwa. This theory has been widely criticized and is not supported by current linguistic research. Instead, it represents a "folk" theory which has recently come to stigmatize this pronunciation, which was traditionally used even by Creole elites in Ecuador.Tag: Visual edit
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Voiced postalveolar fricative
→Occurrence: It says this sound only occurred in Rioplatense Spanish, when this is in fact not true as it also occurs in the lleísta dialect of the central Ecuadorian Andes. It should also be brought into question if this "Rioplatense" designation is fair, as other regions of Argentina are known to use this sound as well, whereas the Rioplatense dialect has generally moved to the [ ʃ ] sound increasingly.Tag: Visual edit