Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

On 3 Jan 02, at 19:40, Pavel Iosad wrote:

> >                                                Do you
> > know of any sounds that appear only five times in a
> > language?  So I went with /h/.
>
> Yes I do :-) In Russian, there are very few words with the long soft
> (palatalized) [z], and only one or two are in really regular use (so it
> seems to be fallign out), and there is only ONE minimal pair for soft [g].
Can you tell me those words (with [z] and the minimal pair for soft
[g]), please?

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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