Note to players: Either the sound itself or its typical representation in the Latin alphabet is acceptable. The deletion of this sound and d in certain positions are the distinguishing features of Costeño (“koh-STAYN-yoh”) Spanish versus other Colombian dialects. In Spanish verbs, a stigmatized intrusive version of this sound often occurs in the 2nd person singular indefinite preterite. The replacement of this sound with a glottal sound at the ends of syllables is common in the Caribbean, Chile, and Argentina. This is the most common sound initially aspirated to produce (*) jejeo (“hay-HAY-oh”). Many European Spanish dialects feature a distinción (“dee-steen-see-OWN”) between a sound represented with c before i or e and this sound, legendarily based on King Ferdinand’s pronunciation. 2nd declension Latin nouns that end in this consonant often end in o in Spanish. For 10 points, name this consonant that forms plural nouns in Spanish, the voiceless counterpart of z. ■END■
ANSWER: s [or suh; or ess; or ese (“AY-say”); accept voiceless alveolar fricative or unvoiced alveolar fricative; prompt on voiceless coronal fricative with “what type of coronal sound is it?”; prompt on alveolar fricative with “what voicing does it have?”; prompt on fricative with “what specific fricative is it?”; reject “voiced alveolar fricative” or any answer about a “postalveolar fricative” or “alveopalatal fricative”; reject any answers about “affricates”; reject “esh” or “sh” or “shuh”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>
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