It may start with annoying ringing or buzzing in the ear, after which it begins to affect our ability to hear soft consonant sounds _ " sh,"
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Russian spelling does not normally distinguish stressed and following a soft consonant ( and in some cases also following the unpaired consonants 6 H F ), writing both as 5.
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In words borrowed from other languages, rarely follows soft consonants; this foreign pronunciation often persists in Russian for many years until the word is more fully adopted into Russian.
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As a result, in most unstressed positions, only three vowel phonemes are distinguished after hard consonants (,, and ), and only two after soft consonants ( and ).
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Despite such proposals, linguists have long agreed that the underlying structure of Russian is closer to that of its acoustic properties, namely that soft consonants are separate phonemes in their own right.
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After soft consonants ( but not before ), it is a mid vowel ( hereafter represented without the diacritic for simplicity ), while a following soft consonant raises it to close-mid.
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After soft consonants ( but not before ), it is a mid vowel ( hereafter represented without the diacritic for simplicity ), while a following soft consonant raises it to close-mid.
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The " l " sound is also normally classed as a soft consonant like the preceding sounds it cannot be followed by " y ", but takes " i " instead.
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That's why we're still stuck with a maudlin minstrel number that makes only one mention of anything uniquely part of Florida _ a single geographical name chosen for no reason other than to eke out two syllables and a soft consonant.
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The letter " i " in this spelling implies a soft consonant like modern English " j "; the second part of the name would be pronounced approximately as "-ageul " would be in modern French.
