Re: Russian phonetics question [Was: What's SHCH?]

Alexander Savenkov wrote:

> I don’t remember other words with this sound. Ah, wait, the word вожжи
> (vozhzhi) is pronounced with soft «ж» (“zh”). Isaac, do you have other
> suggestions?
дрожжи |drozhzhi| 'yeast'. And from what I hear, nobody pronounces щ as
[StS] anymore. It's always [S;:].

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Russian has retroflexes?
Hmm. I would suggest that ш /S/ and ж /Z/ are in fact [s`] and [z`]. Or
maybe [S_e] and [Z_e]. With the same colouring as a hard л /l/
[5]=[l_e].

-- Yitzik

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