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- On the phonetics of Russian ы - Linguistics Stack Exchange
A linguistic question would be "what are the acoustic or articulatory properties of Russian ы", or "what is the correct phonological analysis of 'ы'" We can't teach you how to learn a language
- Why dont minimal pairs like быть and бить prove that ɨ and i . . .
Native Russian speakers' ability to articulate [ɨ] in isolation (for example, in the names of respective letters, и and ы ), Rare instances of word-initial [ɨ] (including the minimal pair икать 'to produce the sound и' and ыкать 'to produce the sound ы'), as well as borrowed names and toponyms, like Ыб About this sound [ɨp
- What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
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 ЪI become Ы? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
When did Old Slavic ЪI become Ы?The question would be better asked as “When did the OCS ЪИ become ЪІ and when did ЪІ become Ы?” The three variants were originally used interchangeably, but later Ы 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, ЪІ or Ы The first
- Why IPA does not indicate soft consonants in English?
The palatalisation dualism is also reflected in Cyrillic alphabet ("и" vs "ы" etc), but not in Latin alphabet Because these sounds aren't perceived as different in English
- How many different distinctive sounds can an average human make?
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
- Are there any minimal pairs between [ɨ] and [i] in Russian phonology?
I have been studying about Russian phonology and its phonemes and I wanted to ask a question: are there any minimal pairs between [ɨ] and [i] or are they just allophonic variations of the phoneme i ?
- Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
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
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