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From: Richard Wordingham [mailto:richard.wordingham@...]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:34 AM
To: phoNet@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [phoNet] Re: Directionality of Sound changes


Lithuanian has 4 sibilants - [s], [S], [z], [Z].  
 
Or even 8, if one accepts the standard phonological analysis, postulating phonemic distinctions between non-palatalized and palatalized obstruents (an alternative analysis ascribes phonemic status to the fronted variants of non-fronted vowels, thus cutting the number of obstruents in half).
 
Sergei