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Questions about phonetics
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Is there an equivalent of the Harvard sentences for Russian?
The Harvard sentences (Wikipedia, full list of sentences) are a set of English sentences that:
Are phonetically balanced in the sense that the phonemes that are used in the sentences appear at the ...
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Examples of mid-open and mid-closed vowels in Russian
I am looking for Russian word pairs illustrating the distinction between mid-open and mid-closed vowels. Although the distinction is not significant in Russian, both types are probably realized, which ...
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Can you still pronounce “щ” as “ш + ч”?
I know that pronouncing “щ” as “ш + ч” is outdated, but can I still pronounce it like that? Will people understand me?
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The strange behavior of “обо” (=about), apparently valid only for two expressions? What is the historical reason?
In Russian, the preposition “o” when meaning "about" becomes “обо” when we say “обо мне” (=about me) and “обо всей книге” (=about all the book) but why do we then say:
“о многих книгах » (=...
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Epenthetic л: why there is no л in the conjugation of the verb звать between the в and the ё in зовёшь, зовёт, зовём and зовёте?
I understand that an epenthetic л should always appear between any of the five labial consonants б, п, м, ф and в and the sound /j/ (except in front of the sound /ja/), so that, for example, in the ...
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First conjugation verbs and first person singular in -ю or in -y ? What is the phonological or orthographical underlying rule?
It seems that for first conjugation verbs (or -e- conjugation verbs i.e. those with endings in -ю/-у, -ешь, -ет, -ем, -ете, -ют/ут), the -y ending is always used at the first person singular after any ...
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Do Russians pronounce "Арбатская" and "Орбацкая" the same?
A Russian language exchange partner of mine boasted that unlike words in the English language, Russian words are spelt and pronounced basically the same. In response, I asked him about Арбатская and ...
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How does one hear the stress in Russian words?
How can I hear which syllable is considered stressed in a Russian word? And: how, exactly, should stress in Russian pronunciation be realised?
My problem
I realise that to stress a syllable is to ...
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What exactly is дольник?
I've been reading a bit about Russian prosody and it's been puzzling me. According to Wikipedia, there are different historical definitions of what дольник means, but most scholars today subscribe to ...
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How prevalent is the sound /ʑ:/ in Russian?
The sound /ʑ:/ is known as the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative and, roughly speaking, is the average of /z/ as in zebra and /ʒ/ as in vision. Russian speakers can understand /ʑ:/ as the ...
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Can Russians naturally pronounce "попал в бесперспективняк"?
Let's suppose you are having a casual conversation with a friend and talking quickly and want to say, "Попал в бесперспективняк." Will you be able to pronounce this flawlessly and without changing the ...
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Are there any common words with the syllable "кы"?
Some time ago a Russian academic visitor told me that there are no "normal" Russian words with the syllable кы. He said that the only words with the syllable кы are proper names given by non-Russian ...
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What is the phonetical difference between phrases like "зачем пришел" and "за чем пришел"?
Yesterday I asked a question about the meaning of "научись," and it turned out that in the movie in which I heard this, it was not "научись," but "на, учись." This was a real trap! The Russian ...
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Why is the Russian informal phone greeting "алё" equivalent to the Turkish one?
I recently discovered that the Russian informal phone greeting, алё, precisely coincides with the Turkish one. When you hear "алё," you absolutely cannot tell whether it is a Russian or a Turk who is ...
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How to pronounce the unstressed е in прише́дшие?
Wikipedia says:
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/e/ has merged with /i/ (or /i/ and /ɨ/ if /ɨ/ is considered a phoneme): for instance, лиса́ (lisá) 'fox' and леса́ 'forests' are both pronounced /lʲiˈsa/, phonetically ...
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In Russian, is [i] a possible substitute for [ɯ] after a velarized consonant?
I've read [i] doesn't really occur in the context I've described but I still want to know whether the meaning is changed.
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Vowel reduction of pretonic [о]
This is a two-part question; I hope that's allowable. I'm aware that an unstressed о is usually reduced, though there are some exceptions -- specifically in borrowed words, such as стерео or радио. ...
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What are the Latin Transliterations of Hard Consonants Converted to Soft Consonants?
I have been studying Russian recently and I have come across a problem that I have been trying to resolve for some time now which involves the softening of consonants.
I understand that there are ...
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"Ж" as a Mexican cattle brand [closed]
Could this be a Ж?
Two hundred years ago a young, literate Russian immigrant to Mexico claimed his cattle brand. Usually these were just Latin letters, with some flourish or packed together, or else ...
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When does "e" change to "ё" in plurals?
I've just started learning German, and what strikes me about their plurals is that a word in its plural form can change not only at the end but in the middle as well (die Kopf / die Köpfe, der Stuhl / ...
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Why do some people pronounce "р" as uvular fricative?
I usually hear the letter "р" pronounced as a post-alveolar trill, and in countless introductions to Russian phonetics it is taught as such, but some people appear to pronounce the letter further back,...
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Укажите предложение где менее трёх мягких согласных
Пожалуйста, помоги мне.
Укажите предложение где менее трёх мягких согласных.
Он купил тетрадь.
Девять часов.
Они жили рядом.
Это мой день.
Химия - это наука.
Могу кататься на коньках.
Хочу ...
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"И" versus "Й" in Russian
What is the difference in pronunciation between "и" and "й"?
They sound very similar and I can't really hear a difference.
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To what vowel are unstressed "е", "и" and "я" reduced to? Is it an /ɪ/ or an /ə/?
I still have trouble understanding how I'm supposed to reduce vowels in long words. Because in some words like cвидания, the unstressed "я" becomes /jə/; while in others like язык, it sounds more like ...
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[о]>[у] в "господарь">"государь" — единичный случай?
Известны ли, помимо господарь>государь, еще случаи (до распространения аканья, разумеется), когда [о] сужалось в [у]? Может быть, также связанные с выпадением согласного?
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Где послушать произношение русских идиом?
Уважаемые знатоки, пожалуйста, посоветуйте ресурс, где можно услышать русские фразеологизмы, идиомы, сленг в концентрированном виде.
Спасибо!
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Сколько слогов в слове "смысл"?
Moжно ли с чистой совестью утверждать, что слово "смысл" односложное? Если нет, то есть ли другие слова, в которых количество слогов больше количества писанных гласных? Что говорят по этому поводу ...
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Проверочное слово к слову «окрестность»
В слове окрестность есть непроизносимая согласная т.
Какое будет проверочное слово?
Если верить Викисловарю, корень здесь окрест-. Каким словом показать, что в корне есть т, чтобы она произносилась?
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Famous tongue-twister which is pronounced in parties
I've heard from a stranger a tongue-twister, from which I understood not a single word. It's supposed to be a particularly difficult short Russian phrase which, I was told, it's pronounced mostly when ...
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Is there a [t͡s] in "с юга"?
In this rendition of the Весеннее танго, I hear "с юга" (for example at 1:04) pronounced as ['st͡sjʉgə]. Am I hearing it right, and, if so, what's the [t͡s] doing there? Is it part of some more ...
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Is there a [b] or a [p] in "Египет"?
I've looked up the pronunciation of the word "Египет" at forvo.com, and while it says that the pronunciation is /jɪˈgʲipʲɪt/, I hear a [b] and not a [p] in both available sound files. Am I hearing it ...
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Letter Y issues, or Latin vs. Greek
After reading texnic's answer to my question Pronunciation of foreign IT abbreviations / languages, I became curious about why Latin won over Greek in our Russian schools.
Here in the Czech Republic ...
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Pronunciation of foreign IT abbreviations / languages
I am studying CS in the Czech Republic and recently have noticed that when I talk to Russian programmers, I tend to mispronounce widely known words (famous site names,abbreviations, language names).
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Слово, в котором 8 букв и 9 звуков
Задание из учебника по русскому языку для 3-го класса:
Укажи слово, в котором 8 букв и 9 звуков:
волшебник,
животное,
фантазия,
экспресс.
Первое и последнее сразу отпадают. ...
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Is "й" pronounced as "j" or "y"?
The reference material I've been reading is somewhat confusing. Some sources say that "й" is equivalent to "j", while others say it's equivalent to "y". Which is it? For ...
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Pronunciation exercises
Does anybody know good exercises to learn to pronounce /ы/, /ч/, /щ/ and palatalized consonants?
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Pronunciation norm
Is there a standard Russian pronunciation? If yes, what are its most important features, such as:
quality of vowel reduction ([о], [е], and maybe other vowels in unstressed positions);
pronunciation ...
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How do I split words into syllables?
It isn't as easy as it sounds. Is it possible to come up with a well-defined set of rules that cover all possible cases?
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