{"id":7784,"date":"2017-08-21T15:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/?p=7784"},"modified":"2020-08-04T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T23:03:35","slug":"1-3-phonetics-voicing-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/1-3-phonetics-voicing-b\/","title":{"rendered":"1.3 \u0424\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430 (Phonetics) – Voicing b"},"content":{"rendered":"

III. Pronunciation Rules & Voicing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Final devoicing<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian words experience something known as ‘final devoicing’. If a word ends in a voiced consonant (see above table), at the end of a word it becomes voiceless. So, a final ‘\u0431’ will sound like ‘\u043f’, a final ‘\u0434’ like a ‘\u0442’, a final ‘\u0433’ like a ‘\u043a’, and so on.\u00a0
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to the following examples. Note the difference in pronunciation when a voiced consonant is the FINAL letter of the word versus when it is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u0433\u043e\u0301\u0440\u043e\u0434<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0‘city’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0433\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434<\/span>\u0430\u0301\u00a0<\/strong>‘cities‘<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0444\u043b\u0430\u0433<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>‘flag’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0444\u043b\u0430\u0301\u0433<\/span>\u0438 <\/strong>‘flags’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0437\u0443\u0431<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>‘tooth’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0437\u0443\u0301\u0431<\/span>\u044b <\/strong>‘teeth’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. Regressive voicing assimilation<\/strong><\/p>\n

One more. When these consonants (in the table above) are clustered together in a word, the voicing quality of the\u00a0final consonant<\/strong>\u00a0in the sequence determines those consonants before it. If a cluster ends in a voiced consonant, then the consonants preceding it will also be pronounced voiced (even though they may be written as voiced consonants).<\/p>\n

Listen. Notice the spelling and listen to what happens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u0444\u0443\u0442\u0431<\/span><\/span>\u043e\u0301\u043b <\/strong>‘soccer’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0442\u0430\u0301\u043a \u0436<\/span>\u0435 <\/strong>‘likewise’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Likewise, a sequence of consonants whose final letter is \u2018voiceless\u2019 requires that all consonants immediately preceding it must also be voiceless. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u043b\u043e\u0301\u0434\u043a<\/span>\u0430 <\/strong>‘boat’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0430\u0432\u0442<\/span><\/span>\u043e\u0301\u0431\u0443\u0441 <\/strong>‘bus’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

*NOTE:<\/strong>\u00a0The letter\u00a0{\u0412, \u0432}<\/strong>\u00a0is somewhat exceptional to these rules. It can undergo voicing, as in ‘\u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0431\u0443\u0441’ above, but it cannot trigger voicing. For example,\u00a0\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0439<\/strong>\u00a0is pronounce as\u00a0[tvoj]<\/strong>, with no voicing assimilation triggered for \/t\/. Listen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u0442\u0432<\/span>\u043e\u0439<\/strong> ‘your’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

III. Pronunciation Rules & Voicing 1. Final devoicing Russian words experience something known as ‘final devoicing’. If a word ends in a voiced consonant (see above table), at the end of a word it becomes voiceless. So, a final ‘\u0431’ will sound like ‘\u043f’, a final ‘\u0434’ like a ‘\u0442’, a final ‘\u0433’ like a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/russian-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}