Re: Russian
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 21, 2000, 21:29 |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> The only reason to consider [I] a phoneme is the name of the letter
> denoting this sound (plus a couple of extremely rare Turkish and
> Estonian placenames) where this vowel appears word-initially. Otherwise
> it's a variant of [i] following a 'hard' (non-palatalized) consonant.
When I lived in the dorms there was a Russian exchange student next door.
She had a hard time pronouncing _sheet_.
She told me that one day her prof handed out a sheet of paper containing
info for the final. She raised her hand and asked "Do we need to know
this [sh*t]". Prof was understanding, I guess, but everyone was stunned
until what she really meant registered.
Marcus