Vowel breaking in Russian

[Brian Hayden]

Why is it не-а, anyway, instead of не-э, for example? Is there a reason we
see /a/ there?

Brian Hayden


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On 9/23/2013 3:01 AM, John Dunn wrote:
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>> But then my question is this: are the vowels in не-а separated by a
>> glottal stop?  And, if so, are there any other contexts in Russian where a
>> glottal stop occurs?
>>
>> John Dunn.
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>> Perhaps in terms of etymology (what other word(s) in Russian, by the way,
>> show an analogous effect?), but "не-а" is firmly lexicalized (like "да нет"
>> and "да уж"), it differs stylistically and in emphasis from "нет". In this
>> semantic field, "aга" and "ого" seem more interesting to me phonetically,
>> as they retain an /h/ not otherwise present in the idiolect of speakers of
>> "standard" Russian.
>>
>> Stuart Goldberg
>>
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> My origin explanation is not inconsistent with the synchrony.  Cf. Eng.
> nope, which certainly now ends in a phoneme /p/, considered to originally
> be an artifact of emphatic closure of the lips.
> Jules Levin
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