More on dental fricatives

[Rick Mc Callister]

	You're right, (in areas where it occurs) /-_DH_/ > /-_TH_/ only
occurs finally --at the end of words or syllable final before nasals (I
can't think of any other consonants that might follow <d>)

>> but the curious thing is that they accept phonetic theta when
>> it represents Spanish /d/, but not when it represents Spanish theta.

>        Perhaps I am merely displaying my ignorance (or lack of full
>comprehension of previous missives), but aren't positional considerations
>relevant here?  Does Spanish theta (when not from /d/) occur finally?
>Perhaps in acronyms, and that is what I missed, due to the trauma of
>election night.  But from what little I know, it seems that perhaps the
>where is as important as the what, so to speak.

>                                                       Dr. David L. White

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701