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I would have thought a stressed short /o/ in Latin should become /ue/ in Spanish, but it seems to me that the /o/ in /rosa/ escapes this. Is this an effect of the following -s-? Have I misunderstood which is the tonic vowel? Or is something else at work to keep /rosa/ from becoming /**ruesa/?
Clearly the short /o/ of rosa escapes alteration in other Romance languages as well, so I must be missing something obvious here ....
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@hidden.emailhttp://www.carlaz.com/