Re: Request for help, Spanish

Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> wrote:

> _cuidado_
> > would become [kwi'dao] or [kwi'daw], which is how many people pronounce
> > it *today*.
>
> Is the <d> really a stop, or is it fricative? I thought it was [kwi'Dao].
Sorry. You're right, of course; when writing phonemically I always
use /d/, and I forgot this was phon*et*ical... Indeed /d/ is [D]
practically everywhere in Spanish; only /nd/ is [nd] (maybe also
/ld/). BTW it's not as pronounced as English /D/ -- it's much
softer, almost a dental approximant. Does that even exist?


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/