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But to my ears the result is not that we replace the affricate with the straight forward palato-alveolar fricative [ʒ] that occurs in pleasure ['pleʒə], which is usually lip-rounded and laminal, but with a less lip-rounded, and often apical articulation.
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Only in English, among the languages best known in English-speaking countries, does ‘j’ and sometimes ‘g’ represent a palato-alveolar affricate dʒ.
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The final ‘ć’ [tɕ] is not the same as the English voiceless palato-alveolar affricate /tʃ/, but this is the nearest English sound to it – many English speakers find it very difficult to distinguish between the two Serbian sounds represented as ć and č, the latter being the [tʃ].
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H is always silent, except in the spelling -CH- which represents, as in English, a palato-alveolar affricate.
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The BBC recommendation, which corresponds to that given in most if not all manuals of pronunciation for Serbian, is to treat the ‘dž’, written with the single letter ‘џ’ in Cyrillic, as the straightforward English voiced palato-alveolar affricate.
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It is a problem: in the Germanic languages, plus Polish, Czech and Italian it is regularly pronounced [j] i.e. like the English consonantal ‘y’, but in Spanish it is a voiceless velar fricative [x], while in French and Portuguese it is a voiced palato-alveolar fricative [ʒ].
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How can ‘dsh’ be simpler than e.g. ‘j’ for the voiced palato-alveolar affricate, or ‘tsh’ simpler than ‘ch’ for the voiceless one?
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How can ‘dsh’ be simpler than e.g. ‘j’ for the voiced palato-alveolar affricate, or ‘tsh’ simpler than ‘ch’ for the voiceless one?
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Their God is their belly, as Paul saith, Sancta mater saturitas; — quibus in solo vivendi causa palato est.
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Poscentes vario multum diversa palato, &c. Three guests I have, dissenting at my feast,
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