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Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, July 22, 2004, 22:06
Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> And although "mild (voiced) th" (X-SAMPA [D]) doesn't > exist in Spanish, voiceless "th" (X-SAMPA [T]) is the standard > Castilian pronunciation of |z|, so it should be pretty easy to train > a Castilian Spaniard to pronounce [D].
Say what? [D] is the realization of Spanish /d/, except initially and after a consonant. (Except when the realization is zero, as often finally and sometimes in other positions.) -- "By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair, you shall jcowan@reutershealth.com have neither the Ring nor me!" --Frodo http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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