Are Т, Д, Л and Н dental or alveolar?
Hi,
As a native speaker of Portuguese I am used to producing these sounds as dental, but after a little study on phonetics I realized they are alveolar in most languages. So I assumed they would be alveolar in Russian as well.
But I have been listening to the Pimsleur lessons and I noticed that I can only reproduce the exact sounds of ть and дь in the dental position (OK, maybe not the exact sounds). I am not able to tell the position of the other sounds because dental and alveolar consonant are not that different, but I am really curious about that because I want to do my best to have a proper pronunciation.
So maybe they are actually dental, and not alveolar as I have thought? Or some of them are dental and some alveolar? Or they are all alveolar anyway?
Re: Are Т, Д, Л and Н dental or alveolar?
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Originally Posted by Ngm
Hi,
As a native speaker of Portuguese I am used to producing these sounds as dental, but after a little study on phonetics I realized they are alveolar in most languages. So I assumed they would be alveolar in Russian as well.
But I have been listening to the Pimsleur lessons and I noticed that I can only reproduce the exact sounds of ть and дь in the dental position (OK, maybe not the exact sounds). I am not able to tell the position of the other sounds because dental and alveolar consonant are not that different, but I am really curious about that because I want to do my best to have a proper pronunciation.
So maybe they are actually dental, and not alveolar as I have thought? Or some of them are dental and some alveolar? Or they are all alveolar anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_phonology
states that non-palatalized t and d are dental, but palatalized are alveolar.
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Dummies ... -4194.html