Re: NATLANG: What's the sound of Castilian <s>?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 2003, 3:22 |
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:47:25 -0500 (EST), David Peterson
<ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> The Spaniards I knew had [T]. I thought that was pretty standard. If
> you're hearing something that's closer to [S] or [C], though, it could
> be
> something different (a change, a new dialect, a different phoneme,
> mishearing, or
> lots of incorrect linguistic data).
>
> -David
>
[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.
Paul
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