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Chile (Santiago / Urban)

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Chile · Santiago / Urban

Chilean Spanish is the fastest variety in the Spanish-speaking world: glottal stops replace dropped codas, /tʃ/ fronts to [ʃ], /tɾ/ frictionalizes, and both tú and vos appear depending on the speaker.

Glottal stop insertion/tɾ/ fricatization: tres -> [ʈʂes]Ch fronted to [ʃ]Heavy final-consonant dropVery fast speech rate

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FeatureValueMeaningDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
Ch Realizationch_realizationsh_frontedDrill
T Fricatizationt_fricatizationYesDrill
Glottal Stop Insertionglottal_stop_insertionYesDrill
SyncopationsyncopationYesDrill
Intonation Contourintonation_contourchilean_fast_fallDrill
Speech Ratespeech_ratevery_fastDrill
Tuteo Voseotuteo_voseomixed_tu_vosDrill