What is rehilamiento? It's a linguistic term.

Question

Can you give me English translation for " rehilamiento" or "rehilado"? I am studying Argentinian Spanish, with " yeísmo rehilado".

Answer 1

I googled it to since I am inclined to the mystical. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/lasp/3/paper1712.pdf

I am at work and hope I got this link right.Some Chimera of Traditional Spanish Phonetics is the title of the article. I scanned it and it is describing the way humans use different points of anataomy to modulate the air column that produces various sounds. We most often think of the larynx as the main source of sound but uses of various parts of the mouth will alter that. Rehilamiento seems to be a kind of intense resonant vibration that comes "from the organs and not just the larynx"

Parrots must know about this without reading the article since they do not have vocal cords.

There are illustrations of the vibration patterns related to the various other terms like interdental and laminal. Written in English but by Spanish authors.

Quickly scanning some summaries related to rehilado: seems to have to do with using the posterior part of the soft palate. Almost makes me wonder if these sounds are similar to words like the German CH as in "ach"

So that is my moment of relaxation and now I have to get back to work. Hope that helps

Answer 2

Afellmet:

This is "linguistics" for advanced students of the mystical. I did a Google search for each of the words individually and together as a pair. What I found essentially defied my understanding. I'd like to encourage you to do your own Google search. As you are studying Argentine Spanish, what you find written on the internet will make sense to you where it was far too advanced for me.

Muchos saludos,

Moe