s, however, and in those cases a
>> phonemic orthography doesn't help a lot.
JC> I take it to be rather morphophonemic, much like German orthography.
Yep. Russian phonetists usually call "phonemes" what Western
phonetists call "morphonemes", so they have no problem
t; vowels, of course),
[tS] is _always_ soft in Russian.
>> RG> but I guess it is influenced by orthography.
>>
>> What's the orthography got to do with it??
RG> if the children in schools are taught that [U+0429] is pronounced
RG> as [StS],
Trust me, they
influenced by orthography.
What's the orthography got to do with it??
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in [StS], both consonants "coming together", in a way, and forming a
single [S':] (tS is perceived to be a single consonant sound in Russian and is
different from t+S).
- some phonetists prefer to speak of [S'tS] in the St.Petersburg
accent and not [StS]. It's certainly t
ant; but I want to do
the Right Thing (TM). I found some pages on the web strongly advising not to use
meta tags, e.g. because of recoding proxies on the way; but these pages are
very old and I don't know whether this is still something to be worried about.
Aside from that, someone reported to me
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