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The phonological status of the Russian ‘labial fricatives’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Henning Andersen
Henning Andersen
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. 02138
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It is generally accepted that Contemporary Standard Russian (CSR) has four labiodental fricatives, f, f', v and v'. Most descriptions of Russian phonetics note that two of these, the voiced v and v' differ from all other Russian obstruents in one important respect. While as a general rule obstruent sequences are either voiced throughout or voiceless throughout depending on the voiced or voiceless character of the last member of the sequence, v and v' do not effect assimilative voicing in a preceding obstruent; cf. otbój [-db-], otdát' [-dd-], otgón [-dg-], otzýv [-dz-], otžít' [-dž-], but otvál [-tv-].

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1969 , pp. 121 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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