i kratkoe as ich-laut

[Margarita Orlova]

I believe M. V. Panov has described the rule either in :

Современный русский язык: Фонетика. М.: Высш. шк. 1979. 256 с.

OR in:

Введение; Фонетика // Современный русский язык / Под ред. В. А. 
Белошапковой. М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1981. С. 5—132.

(May be in both of the textbooks. Sorry, do not precisely remember.)

Regards.

Margarita Orlova




> Dear colleagues:
> I read somewhere that, for example, Ru. _moj_ can be pronounced
> emphatically with i kratkoe being devoiced as an ich-laut.  I thought
> it was in Panov's _Russkaja fonetika_ (1967), but I can't find it.
> Can someone direct me to the reference?

I can't cite you a reference, but that was definitely my experience 
when I took classes in Moscow some years back -- when the teachers were 
trying to be especially clear in their pronunciation for our benefit, 
they often fricativized /j/, and then of course once it was a 
fricative, the final devoicing rule applied: мой, моя́ as [moç], [ma'ʑa] 
(мось, мазя́, etc.), or in Polish spelling, moź (pron. moś), maźa, etc.

Similarly, Чайковский came out as [čəç'kɔfskiç] (ćaśkofskiś) with 
devoicing before /k/. Of course in this exaggerated pronunciation the 
/a/ in the first syllable was not fully raised to [i] as it would be in 
casual speech.

Please forgive my clumsy attempts at transliteration.

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