Odp: Odp: [cybalist] Odp: Balto and Slavic Rs.

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From: Mark Odegard <markodegard@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: Odp: [cybalist] Odp: Balto and Slavic Rs.


> Piotr--
> Many Polish learners of Russian find it difficult
> to synchronise the palatal gesture with the trill
> and tend to produce [rj]
> --
>
> The 'palatal gesture'. Please explain. Tho' I think
> I'm beginning to understand.
>
> I think I need the lecture on *exactly* what
palatalization involves.
> I'm asking about what the tongue does.

Sorry for using technical slang here. An "articulatory
gesture" is an action performed by a movable speech. A
"palatal gesture" of the body of the tongue consists in its
movement towards the hard palate (as if you intended to
articulate a fron vowel) to produce a resonance (or
"colour") resembling the sound of [i].

Piotr