Re: New to the list
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 12:55 |
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At 07:42 18.6.2000 -0400, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>Still worse with my surname: the [t_S'] is palatalized, and an unstressed
>/e/ between a palatalized and non-palatalized (that is, in fact, quite
>utterly *velarized*) consonants becomes a rather complex diphthongoid,
>something like quick gliding from [i] to [e] to [@] or even [8] (all
>very narrow). Besides, [t_S'], like all Russian shuffling sounds, tends
>to be slightly labialized.
To me the sound you talk about sounds like a Swedish or German _ö_. Do
Russians identify it with /a/?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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