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Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, August 10, 2001, 4:58
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Don't Icelandic and Danish have the voiced interdental fricative [D]? > Certainly, Mexican Spanish* regularly shifts intervocalic** voiced stops > to their fricative counterparts:
As I understand it, *all* dialects of Spanish use fricative allophones of the voiced stops. The basic rule being the stop allophone is used word-initially or after nasal consonants (or after /l/ in the case of /d/), and fricative elsewhere. -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42