Re: Lingwa de Planeta (LdP) introductory course

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On 8/6/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > My brain tends to register that ending as /tS/.
>
> Same here; note [tS], not [ts].  And d' sounds more like [dZ] than
> [dz].  But I've only dabbled in Russian, and don't hear it very often
> from either native or non-native speakers, so I am not any kind of
> authority.  If the Russophones on the list say that /d_j/ is
> frequently pronounced [dz], who am I to argue?  I"ll just have to get
> over my surprise and move on. :)
Actually, I believe they're saying it's frequently pronounced as [dz)_j].
Hearing a palatalized dental/alveolar as a postalveolar should hardly be
surprising when our native langs do not have phonemic palatalization.

                  Andreas