Re: THEORY: phonemes and Optimality Theory tutorial

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> In Spanish, flapped /r/ and trilled /rr/ only contrast in intervocalic
> positions not begining a word.  In codas the consonant is always
> trilled.
Interesting.  My Spanish dictionary said that <r> is pronounced as a
trill "at the beginning of a word, or in the middle of a word and
preceded by l, n, or s" and as a tap "at the end of a word, or in the
middle of a word and not preceded by l, n, or s", so it gave <forma>,
<deber>, <otro>, <pero> as having the tap pronunciation.  Does the
pronunciation of <r> vary from region to region?  Or perhaps by age
group?  Or is my dictionary just completely wrong?

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