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The p is soft in четыре.

[quote=TATY][quote=chaika]taty, only in writing is it between a vowel and a consonant. In phonemic form there is a semiconsonant /j/ between the letter-vowels:

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Well, it seems that it would depend on the speaker whether the unstressed е is pronounced ye or ee. I just thought that it would sound more like ye than ee when following the stress in a...

Maybe it wasn't a good example. How about ремесленнический.[/quote]

Well, in that word, as far as I understand it, the third e softens the л, which softens the с, which closes the second e,...

Will you pronounce меня myenya or meenya, and в машине vmashinye or vmashine?[/quote]

I thought the pronunciation difference was because in машине the е was at the end of the word.

The prononciation of е will depend on whether it precedes or follows the stressed letter in a word.[/quote]

Is that so?