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Why no elisions in Spanish?
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25 June 2010 at 6:58pm | IP Logged

luhmann wrote:

Andy E wrote:

..and regarding the long "a" sound, if we take a phrase like va a hacer,
I'm not convinced that one of those "a"s wouldn't be elided.

This would not happen in a standard educated speech. If you drop one of the "a"s it becomes "va a ser", or "va
hacer". But, of course, in informal speech, you will hear everything.

It does happen in standard educated speech when spoken rapidly. In Peninsular Spanish it won't become "va a ser".
Context will nevertheless make it clear that neither "va a ser" nor "va hacer" is meant.

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