Aussenwerbung

Eintrag vom: 12.05.2013.

I believe there was some important research published in recent decades which brought a fundamental change to the way linguists think about phonemes. Or is it that the concept of the phoneme has a...

 

The word "jeans" is I believe a good example for Russian. The Russian word is ?????? which consists of ????? (jeens although "j" is pronounced as "dzh") and the suffix ? (y for plural) so it sounds approximately like dzheensy. All this is really hardwired there is simply no way to pronounce it differently.

 

Why don't minimal pairs like "????" and "????" prove that /?/ and /i/ are separate phonemes in Russian? In analyses of Russian there's a dispute about whether the vowels /?/ and /i/ (typically represented in the orthography as "?" and "?" respectively) are separate phonemes or if [...

 

Renglish/??????? (not mine) is an adaptation of Cyrillic for English. Most of the sounds seem ok but how would you normally differentiate [i] in bit from the [i?] in beet using Cyrillic or would t...

 

The notion of 'distinctive' sounds indicates that the discussion must be limited to phoneme inventories found in a single language. To do this we can consider the largest known inventories of contrastive (i.e. which I'm taking 'distinctive' to mean for the purposes of this answer) consonants vowels and tonal features. Consonant inventories According to the World Atlas of Language Structures ...

 

I have been studying about Russian phonology and its phonemes and I wanted to ask a question: are there any minimal pairs between [?] and [i] or are they just allophonic variations of the phoneme /i/?

 

We recently had a similar question at Ukrainian.SE. The phonology of "soft sign" is equal between the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Briefly the "soft sign" has derived from an ancient short "i" vowel but then reduced to a phonological aspect (palatalization) that affects the preceding consonant.

 

When did Old Slavic ?I become ??The question would be better asked as ?When did the OCS ?? become ?? and when did ?? become ??? The three variants were originally used interchangeably but later ? took over the most obvious reasons being it had the simplest shape of the three and since the yers disappeared as sounds it became irrelevant which one to use ?? or ?. The first ...

 

Native Russian speakers' ability to articulate [?] in isolation (for example in the names of respective letters ? and ? ) Rare instances of word-initial [?] (including the minimal pair ????? 'to produce the sound ?' and ????? 'to produce the sound ?') as well as borrowed names and toponyms like ?? About this sound [?p ...

 

A linguistic question would be "what are the acoustic or articulatory properties of Russian ?" or "what is the correct phonological analysis of '?'". We can't teach you how to learn a language.