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

From:Alexander Savenkov <savenkov@...>
Date:Saturday, July 24, 2004, 21:39
Hello,

2004-07-23T16:53:41+03:00 Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> wrote:

...many things skipped...

> So, this seems to be suggesting that not only does |sh| [S] have a soft > counterpart which is not only soft, but geminate (the sound written with > the letter _shche_); but also, that |zh| [Z] has a soft geminate > counterpart, [\z:] or so. My question is not so much "is this true?" > (I've heard it suggested elsewhere, and it seems to have been true once, > at least), but "how do you spell this sound?" or "what words does it > occur in?" or "how do I infer this sound from the spelling of a word?"
> I think that |dozhd'|, _rain_ might have it, so "zhd'" looks like one > spelling of it.
Exactly, that’s the word. Note that дождь (dozhd’) is pronounced as [дожжь] ([dozhzh’]), i.e. nobody here pronounces the «д» (“d”) letter. On the other hand, you can’t say «ждь» (“zhd’”) is the spelling of it. Another word, вождь (vozhd’), is pronounced as [вошть] ([vosht’]). 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?
> Spasibo bol'shoj,
(spasibo bol’shoye) Not at all. Alexander -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/

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