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

Hello,

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

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> 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
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