Re: Another SAMPA question

>[J\] isn't it?  Not to be confused with [J](an eñe) or [j\] (a voiced
>palatal fricative).  All of them, I believe, occur in some dialect of
>spanish, to make things ultra-fun, along with [j].  Fortunately, not all
>in the same dialect.
They all occur in my Castilian dialect:

[J\] a 'hard' allophone of "y", e.g. in absolute initial: "¡Ya!" [J\a]
[j\] 'soft' allophone of "y", e.g. between vowels: "¡Vaya!" ['baj\a]
[j] an allophone of "i", e.g. "hierro" ['jero] (cf. "yerro" ['j\ero])
[J] "ñ", e.g. "año" ['aJo]

The affricate [J\j\] also occurs as another possible 'hard' allophone
of "y", especially after nasal (e.g. "cónyuge" ['konJ\j\uxe]).

Cheers,
Javier