Stress and consonants

Hi all,

Maybe you can help me by telling me whether or not this is plausible.

I'm considering making pronunciation of consonants in one of my
languages somewhat dependent on stress. I haven't developed the idea
at all, so here's a crude example of what I mean:

If the word /tati/ had stress on the last syllable, it would be realized as:

[ta.ti]

If the word /tati/ had stress on the first syllable, however, it would
be realized as:

[ta.si]

[s] would be an allophone of /t/ that would occur in certain contexts,
perhaps intervocalically except when it begins a stressed syllable...?
(I really don't know yet.)

I can't think of any examples of stress in natlangs affecting
pronunciation of consonants in a similar way, so I'm hoping someone
here will either be able to give me examples or tell me that I should
drop this idea if I care about realism. =)

--
Katya

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