More on dental fricatives

[Rick Mc Callister]

	I think you're missing the point.
	In standard Spanish <d> is ALWAYS fricative /_DH_/ except when
sentence initial (or after a pause in a sentence), after /l/ & after /n/
	The variant forms occur in syllable final <d>

[snip ]

>[Ed Selleslagh]

>This pronunciation of d as edh is quite frequent, not only in final positions,
>but it is by no means arbitrary and I haven't been able yet to figure out the
>rules. A very similar phenomenon is that of b being pronounced as fricative v
>in certain positions (e.g. Avraham Lincoln in Spanglish),

	You mean /aBHraNG liNGkoNG/? :>

> even by native
>speakers who "can't" pronounce fricative v knowingly. Two cases of
>non-phonemic
>alternate pronunciation??

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