Re: Palatal vs. Palatalized (was Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:19:25 +0100, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:
> Russian allows a distinction between syllables like
> [a.t_ja] and [at.ja], to make up two examples. I'm not
> sure if it could allow a distinction between [tja] and
> [t_ja], though it's possible, since the hard sign,
> used to cancel palatalization on a consonant, evolved
> from proto-Slavic over-short [u], IIRC.
See http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0408c&L=conlang&P=6826
, which shows a phonemic distinction in Russian between [n], [n_j],
and [n_jj] -- not sure whether [nj] exists, though.

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