I hear the ll as ʝ in "Medellín" and ʎ in "mejilla".
It is on the first minute of these clips:
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1Maybe lleísmo and/or yeísmo? – Diego Apr 19 '20 at 01:22
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In the first minute of these clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QaOFiFDps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzbWimMb_7Y – Andrew Sherlock Apr 19 '20 at 10:11
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2Those are two different speakers in those videos - they have different accents. – jacobo Apr 20 '20 at 00:12
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I don't hear [ʎ] in either of the videos. I hear a voiced fricative [ʝ] in "mejillas" (which tends to become an approximant [j]) for the first few speakers in the second video (who are... Colombian?).
For "Medellín", the speaker (which speaks standard European Spanish) alternates between a fricative that sounds very close to [ʒ] and its corresponding affricate [dʒ]. I believe this alternation is common, especially when the syllable is stressed.
The sound transcribed as ll is only rarely a true palatal lateral, and it varies a lot among dialects and even among individuals. Since there are no similar sounds in Spanish that could be mistaken for it, this variation often goes unnoticed.
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It would normally be a case of different speakers, different accents. But the fact that the first speaker is speaking with a Spanish (from Spain) accent suggests that this is a case of a foreign speaker pronouncing Medellín in the local manner.
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