Re: [romconlang] Latin short o in Spanish rosa?

From: Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:20:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: [romconlang] Latin short o in Spanish rosa?
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com

 --- Carl Edlund Anderson skrzypszy: 

> 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/?

Well, I know vï¿½ry little about Spanish, but my guess is that it should rather
be the /r/ that prevents /o/ from turning into /ue/.

Jan

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