Questions about phonetics
Questions tagged [фонетика]
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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?
Trident D'Gao
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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 авторитетные источники по русскому языку?
Armen Tsirunyan
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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. Остаются 2 и 3, и оба подходят, так как последняя гласная в обоих…
Alexey Ivanov
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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 people get drunk and they tend to say bad words…
c.p.
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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 same frequency they do in English.
Contain all…
Emily
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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 phonetics is so tricky!
Kind users of this forum…
Mitsuko
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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, as an uvular fricative, such as in this…
Pascal Sommer
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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 /jɪ/.
Same happens with "e", or at least that's…
Matt24
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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.
Duarte Alfonso Martin
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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 the following one:
Дольник возникает, когда в…
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