Question on Ukrainian v/w

[John Dunn]

I had always believed the situation was as described by Anna Dvigubski in her first (uncorrected) e-mail and can find sources that support that version.  I have, however, found two sources (Jazyki narodov SSSR, I, p. 131, and a textbook for foreign learners published in Kiev in 1975) which give different accounts.  The former states that [v] occurs (optionally) only before /i/ (він); the latter says in a footnote that [v] occurs before /и/ (виделка).

John Dunn.


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From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:36:28 -0400
Subject: [SEELANGS] Question on Ukrainian v/w

I was perusing this cursory description of Ukrainian phonology:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_phonology>
and there doesn't seem to be any mention of [v].

Is this right? Ukrainian has no [v]~[f], only /ʋ/ = [ʋ]? E.g., вовк = 
[ʋoʋk]([wowk] for those who cannot read IPA)?

TIA.

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