Accented Russian apophony

In Russian , the dull Voyelle S undergo a notable Apophonie. That means that vowel which is not struck a tonic Accent can see its modified stamp, most of the time by Centralisation or Neutralization.

This article requires the reading of that treating of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Fundamental stamps

There exist five Phonème S vocalic, /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/.

Tonic vowels

Under the accent, these five phonemes are respectively carried out, ~ (after consonant lasts), and, which makes six phons. As follows: сковорода́ skovorodá “stove”, ве́тер veter “wind”, отрави́ть otravít' “to poison”, сын syn “wire”, дóбрый dóbryj “good”, свищу́ sviŝú “I whistle”, etc

Dull vowels

Dull vowels, except /i/ and /u/ (with their Allophone S: и, ы and ы, ю) tend to being neutralized in, and. The median values of these vowels are proposed below, according to their position compared to the tonic accent; this model of apophony with prevalence of the /a/ stamp in a neutralized form is specific to the pronunciation of the area of Moscow. One names the reduction with /a/ аканье , that with /i/ иканье .

Note:

  1. there exist notable details that this table does not reflect: for example, я dull after a hushing palatal - ч č щ ŝ - is marked, certain dull endings in - е and - я are carried out;
  2. one should not mistake: the symbol returns well to the Schwa of the API, neutral vowel more open and less labialized than the '' E '' says “dumb” or “null and void” of French, than one often transcribes, wrongly, by: small . With the ear, Russian is very open. In the same way, which one transcribed here by represents a phoneme even more open, often simply noted;
  3. finally, let us recall that hushing the ш and ж as well as the affricate consonant ц must be followed letter е to note hard (normally written э after consonant). Thus, in да́же “also”, the final е replacing э, it is necessary to pronounce.

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