caribbean · Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo Urban / Prestige)
Dominican Republic · Santo Domingo (Educated Urban)
The educated, prestige-influenced register of the capital softens the countryside's strongest features: coda /s/ merely aspirates rather than vanishes, and coda /r/ gets only a light, optional softening instead of full lambdacism.
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Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| R Infinitiver_infinitive | soften | Drill | |
| Jota Realizationjota_realization | glottal_h | Drill | |
| Intonation Contourintonation_contour | caribbean_staccato | Drill |