Re: Russian _s<_ etc. ([was]: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Chang

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63413
Date: 2009-02-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Przemyslaw Ziobrowski <pmva@...> wrote:
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> Andrew Jarrette ta nugatu-r:
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> > So the Russian character which they always say is pronounced "shch" is
> > actually not so pronounced, rather /S:/? Is it never and nowhere
> > pronounced "shch", or do some dialects have /StS/ instead of general
> > Russian /S:/? My Ukrainian girlfriend (who speaks primarily Russian)
> > pronounces it /S:/, I think, although I've read that it also has some
> > palatalization in it, similar to /S:j/ or something like that, so at
> > times I think I hear her saying /S:/ with a slight [j]-like sound. But
> > that may be merely because that is what I expect to hear, not that I
> > actually hear it. So what is the real, actual pronunciation of the
> > Russian "shch" character, throughout Russia (and Ukraine)?
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> http://venus.unive.it/canipa/pdf/HPr_08_Russian.pdf
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> http://venus.unive.it/canipa/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:pdf
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Thank you for providing those very informative and illuminating links.

Andrew