Caribbean. Aspiration or elimination of the In syllable-final position, (i.e., before a consonant or at the end of a word), is debuccalized to ( before voiced consonants) or eliminated altogether. Examples include instead of (las rosas, 'the roses') instead of (los dos, 'the two'). This is also common in other "lowland Spanish" areas (Caribbean basin, River Plate, Chile, etc.) and in the southern half of Spain. The most common phrase this affects is "¿Como estás tu?" and "Como está Ud?". Respectively, these sound like and (See "Elimination of the letter "d" between vowels and at the end of words".) Glottalization of is usually realized as : instead of (las mujeres, 'the women'), and instead of (José, 'Joseph'). Elimination of between vowels /d/ underɡoes lenition to the point of complete deletion (/d/ > [ð] > [Ø]): instead of (estado, 'state'), and instead of ('all'). Elimination of at the end of a word In that case, a stress is usually placed on the final vowel. Examples include instead of (pared, 'wall') and instead of (Madrid). Fricativization of to Many rural Puerto Ricans do not roll their tongues on the double "r" sound in words (ex. "arroz" or "carro"), making it sound like the Scottish loch, arroz and carro are pronounced and respectively. However, it is mostly a free variant of /r/, making and interchangeable to and respectively. Lateralization of to The that is the end of a syllable (not followed by a vowel) is often changed to an , so that words like "perdón" (forgiveness) and "Puerto Rico" become "peldón" and "Puelto Rico" respectively. Realization of syllable- and word-final Aside from , , [χ], and [l], syllable-final can be realized as , an influence of American English on the Puerto Rican dialect; "verso" (verse) becomes , aside from , , or , "invierno" (winter) becomes , aside from , , or , and "parlamento" (parliament) becomes , aside from , , or . In word-final position, will usually be: either a trill, tap, approximant, , or elided when followed by a consonant or a pause, as in amo paterno ('paternal love'). a tap, approximant, or when the followed by a vowel-initial word, as in amo eterno ('eternal love'). Retraction of to Word-final is pronounced as velar ( is an allophone of before velar consonants and word-final position), words include consideran ('they consider') and Teherán ('Tehran'). The best and most well-known example of