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

Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> 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).
[T] for /s/? That sounds really weird, since /s/, written |s|, and /T/,
written |z| or |c|, contrast in Castilian. In the apparently slightly non-
standard variant ofCastilian my Spanish relatives speak, they're [s] and [T].

                                                  Andreas