Moscow pronunciation

[John Dunn]

There was, I believe, something of a revival of of the видют, слышут [vidjut, slyshut] pronunciation during the 1990s.  I heard it a few times on television and also in the speech of a Moscow friend who happens to be an expert on Russian phonetics.  I don't, though, recall hearing it in the last few years.  Perhaps I have been listening inefficiently or perhaps it is yet another victim of the укрепление вертикали and the петросянизация всей России.

John Dunn.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:35:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Terms "gerund" and "verbal adverb"

On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:25 PM, gladney at UIUC.EDU wrote:

> The 3rd person plural for the e/o and i conjugations in the  
> conservative Russian described by Jakobson in 1948 was distinct on  
> the surface only under accent (unaccented, it was "vidjut" and  
> "ljubjut").  Below the surface, they differ because the the ending  
> (/nt/) has a different effect on thematic o than on thematic i.
>
>

It may have been in the old Moscow pronunciation. The last person I  
met who spoke this way was Agniya Sergeevna Rzhevskaya in the 70's  
who emigrated from the Soviet Union during WWII which undoubtedly  
helped her preserve the old phonetics.


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
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aisrael at american.edu




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University of Glasgow, Scotland

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