"FLARR Pages #37: Spanish: Me Llamo o Me Yamo? Survival of Phoneme /l/ " by Jacqueline Alvarez
 

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Fall 2004

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The phoneme /1/ (as calle=street, apellido=last name, Have= key or caballo= horse) has disappeared in many zones of Spanish America to give place to the "yeismo", a linguistic phenomenon characterized by the predominance of the /y/ over other phonemes like /1/. Because of this, the word calle is pronounced caye, apellido=apeyido, Ilave=yave and caballo=cabayo.

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