Teoh wrote:
>
>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:10:28AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > H. S. Teoh scripsit:
> >
> > > Now I know Prokofiev is [proko"fi&v] but what is the correct
>pronunciation
> > > of Shostakovich? I've always pronounced it ["SAstakovitS] but I'm
>known to
> > > be quite wrong sometimes. :-)
> >
> > All my sources agree on stressing "Prokofiev" on the second syllable and
> > making the ending [fjEf] or [fj@f]. "Shostakovich", OTOH,
> > gets stressed on the third syllable. I have no idea if this matches
> > Russian stress at all.
>[snip]
>
>I see.
>
>And while we're on the subject of pronunciations... what are the correct
>pronunciations of "Sibelius" and "Dvorak"? I pronounce "Sibelius" as
>[saj"bi:lj@s] but a friend says [si"b&lj@s].
The Swedish version of "Sibelius" 'd be [sI'be:li8s]. I guess there's a
Finnish version too.
>Also, my acquaintances seem to have rather divergent opinions about how
>the 'r' in "Dvorak" is pronounced. I pronounce it as [Z] but I suspect I'm
>probably very wrong. :-)
>
[rZ] according to a quick look in an encyclopedia. But technically I think
it should be simultaneous [r] and [Z].
Andreas
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