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