From: Philip Newton
Message: 3731
Date: 2004-12-06
>From what I have heard, this is not accurate, or at least not in all
> щ /ʃʧ/ [ʃʧ]~[ʃʲʧʲ]
> Russian can overtly encode palatalization of aBut AFAIK there are also letters which are always palatalised. ISTR
> consonant/consonant-string by use of the "soft sign" <ь> or overtly
> block palatalization (triggered by vowels that automatically palatalize
> preceding consonants) by the "hard sign" <ъ>