> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Eugene Oh
> I'd say the voiced stops have changed to such an extent that
> they have now
> become approximants/fricatives and the plosive forms are now
> the allophones.
> Particularly in Castilian.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm no Spanish speaker, but I thought
> nowadays the stops occur only in clusters? I think what the
> site meant would
> be that the voicing contrast in stops has evolved into a
> litany of other
> sounds and that the "best", or easiest, or whatever, way to
> classify them
> would be to throw them into a "fricative" category. Perhaps.
I'm not a native either but stops occur in clusters (what few there are) and at
the beginning of a word so "dedo" would be [deDo].