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Here is the relevant part of posts from a listserve I subscribe to. More than you ever wanted to know about stress and E but I think these two posts sum up the issue very well:


I am not a native...

yes, same as каминь if there were such a word.

You guys did not read what I wrote. I used the term "morphophonemic notation", not "phonetic" when I was talking about читает. I did not say it is pronounced with an O. But now that you mention it,...

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

/čit

unstressed e is in standard language /i/ when it occurs between two palatalized consonants. This phenomenon is called и

The trick is where the unstressed e occurs. If it is word final, it may well be that it is pronounced /e/ as in о маме, о трамвае. But within a word when unstressed /i/ will always be OK and probably...