Esredux
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- May 10, 2010
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- Native Language
- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
...most native speakers aren't aware of it, and even dispute it when you tell them - until they see a spectrogram.
Indeed, it's hard to identify sounds in the stream of speech - it just goes without saying there should be /nd/ in 'handbag' not /m/ and even when pronounced with /m/ the word is clearly perceived according to its written form. Is it simply due to the context that the 'wrongly' pronounced words are easily understood?
If there was any chance to have a look at that spectrogram, it would be really helpful.