Re: NATLANG: What's the sound of Castilian <s>?

Paul Bennett scripsit:

> [T] for _all_ /s/? I've never heard that -- often [T] for /s/ /_i,e -- but
> then again I've never listened carefully around Spanish speakers so I may
> just be imposing on them what my textbooks tell me they "should" be saying.
> Spain Spanish, btw. I know the situation is different in Chicano and other
> American Spanishes.
The normative pronunciation is that orthographic "z" (including "c" before
front vowels) is [T] and orthographic "s" is an apical variety of [s].
There are Spanish dialects that use [T] for both (so-called "ceceo") and
others, including almost the whole of overseas Spanish that use a more ordinary
laminal [s] for both (so-called "seseo").

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