Pronunciation: Cucurella

[LoveVanPersie]

How is the surname Cucurella of the footballer Marc Cucurella pronounced in Catalan? Is the e pronounced /e/ (is -ella a diminutive suffix here?) or /ɛ/?

 

[Dymn]

I've never heard it but I would pronounce it with /e/.

 

[LoveVanPersie]

Thanks for your answer Dymn!

 

[Circunflejo]

I've never heard it but I would pronounce it with /e/.

The DCVB also quotes /e/ for cucurell but it just quotes the pronouciation in Majorca and it doesn't talk about the pronounciation elsewhere.

 

[LoveVanPersie]

Does the surname Cucurella and the word cucurell, -ella have the same pronunciation? DCVB puts them on different pages.

 

[Doraemon-]

The words in -ella I'm thinking in are all of them with /e/, so I guess it must be /kuku'ɾeʎa/ in western dialects, /kuku'ɾeʎə/ in the eastern ones.

 

[Penyafort]

The words in -ella I'm thinking in are all of them with /e/, so I guess it must be /kuku'ɾeʎa/ in western dialects, /kuku'ɾeʎə/ in the eastern ones.

Most are with /e/ indeed. So I'd say /kuku'ɾeʎə/ too.

Very few common ones are with /ɛ/, at least in Central Catalan: cella, orella, ovella, abella...

 

[Doraemon-]

Most are with /e/ indeed. So I'd say /kuku'ɾeʎə/ too.

Very few common ones are with /ɛ/, at least in Central Catalan: cella, orella, ovella, abella...

Yes, true; in "short" words with no masculine in -ell there are some.

 

[LoveVanPersie]

Thanks for sharing your opinions!