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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Name pronunciation
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <FURUFURU.95Feb11205908@kongming.ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <D3uB1I.69t@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3hmmfd$798@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 21:42:42 GMT
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In article <3hmmfd$798@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> asolovyo@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ariadna a solovyova) writes:
>Chajkovskij is pronounced just like Chakovskij (a Russian writer's name). 

I pronounce the first one as [tS;Ij'k<w>ofsk;ij].

>"A" in unstressed syllables after soft consonants is pronounced as something 
>between [i] and a schwa.

To be quite precise, it is [I], with both [i] and [e] being regarded
as regional deviations.  (The first one even has a name, _ikan'e_.)

It is true that English _ee_ is fairly close, and I admit that I gave
the poster before me less credit than I should have done, although for
the full effect we'd have to find a word where _ee_ occurs in the syllable
before the stress, and there doesn't seem to be any such words in English.

-- 
`I'm sendin a flood tae pit an end tae it aw.  But dinny worry yersel, Noah.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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