Re: Russians and their palates was Re: [CONLANG] Palatalized uvular stop

Amanda wrote: "It's simple.  In a word like "ob#jasnit'", where # is the
hard sign (which means "don't palatalize this") and ' is the soft sign
(which means "palatalize this"), the /b/ is held - swallowed almost - and
the breath stream stops completely.  It's almost a pause.  Then the word
starts back up with the /j/.

"I think the /b/ has no release at all."

This, indeed, makes sense.

However, what I am unsure about is the distinguishability of, e.g., [b_jj] ~
[b_j]. And, presented with your explanation above, should I now assume that
[b_jj] = [b_j?j] or [b_j_}j]?

Cheers,

T

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