Hi!
Isaac Penzev writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> | Eric Christopherson writes:
> | > ... If so, would people whose first language is not
> | > English perceive /kant/ and /kVnt/ to sound the same?
> |
> | E.g. Germans, most definitely yes. /V/ is a strange sound to us
> | sounding very much like our /a/ so many of us pronounce those two
> | words identically.
>
> The same is true for Russian and Ukrainian speakers. I still am not sure
> about the precise quality of English /V/.
I thought [V] was the reduced phone of the Russian /a/ and /o/
phonemes? So I thought <kholodylnik> was [xVlV'd15nik].
**Henrik