Radovan Garabik wrote: > > RG> but I guess it is influenced by orthography. > > > > What's the orthography got to do with it?? > > if the children in schools are taught that "щ" is pronounced > as "шч", they (those who are paying atention) will remember it > and then use this pronunciation when asked to pronounce each phoneme > of a given word.
Uh!? Are you thinking about children from ethnic minorities? Russian children are supposed to be already able to speak Russian when they go to school: I guess what they learn is "that sound has that letter", not the other way round. _ Marco
