Emberblaque
August 11, 2013, 06:28 PM
Couldn't quite figure out where to put this, there's no pronunciation board.
I was once under the impression that all b's and v's represented the voiced bilabial fricative in Spanish, but I've come to understand that the voiced bilabial plosive also exists in Spanish, and that sometimes even the voiced labiodental fricative can make an appearance as an allophone of the voiceless labiodental fricative before other voiced consonants.
My questions are, are there any guidelines for deciding when to use a plosive or a fricative when encountering the letters b or v? Do I need to memorize IPA representations of every word containing a b or a v? Are these just things that I'll have to grasp intuitively as part of my accent, much as I do with vowel sounds?
I was once under the impression that all b's and v's represented the voiced bilabial fricative in Spanish, but I've come to understand that the voiced bilabial plosive also exists in Spanish, and that sometimes even the voiced labiodental fricative can make an appearance as an allophone of the voiceless labiodental fricative before other voiced consonants.
My questions are, are there any guidelines for deciding when to use a plosive or a fricative when encountering the letters b or v? Do I need to memorize IPA representations of every word containing a b or a v? Are these just things that I'll have to grasp intuitively as part of my accent, much as I do with vowel sounds?