Re: Unilang: the Morphology

> > themselves. If they're truly independent words, then I assume they're
> > actually pronounced as [s@] and [k@], or perhaps [@s] and [@k]?
>
> I think they are pronounced /s/ and /k/.  If the preceding word ends
> or the following start with a vowel, you might analyse that they are
> pronounced *with* that word, but if not, they are clearly simply the
> above phonemes as far as I know.  But my Russian is too bad to
> generate sentences.
>
/i`dusma`jemtova`riS:@m/
Idu s mojem tovarishchem
I go with my comrade.

They are pronounced simply as /s/ or /k/ alone, but sort of added to the
front of the following word where it is possible. That is to
say, "s mojem", "k torzhevstvu" and so on. Anyplace where Russian allows
[s] or [k] before something else, it is pronounced like if it were part of
that word. Speaking slowly, the above sentence would be /i`du sma`jem
tova`iS:@m/. There are places where the forms [so] and ?[ka] are used, but
I don't know where...Serbian uses always the [sa] and [ka] form, except in
fast speech, when they are rendered as /s/ or /k/ before vowels, also note
that [ka] is not much used in Serbian.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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