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

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Sunday, December 7, 2003, 5:04
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"). -- Using RELAX NG compact syntax to John Cowan develop schemas is one of the simple http://www.reutershealth.com pleasures in life.... http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Jeni Tennison <jcowan@...>