From: Przemyslaw Ziobrowski
Message: 63410
Date: 2009-02-24
> So the Russian character which they always say is pronounced "shch" ishttp://venus.unive.it/canipa/pdf/HPr_08_Russian.pdf
> 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)?