Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> Actually, [z] exists in Spanish; it is an allophone of /s/, and shows up
> in words like "mismo" /mismo/, which is realized as [mi:zmo] in many
> Spanish dialects. 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]. I wouldn't be surprised if
> [D] showed up as an allophone of /T/ in some contexts.
Um? I was under the impression that having [D] as an allophone of /d/ was just
about universal in Spanish dialects.
Andreas