From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 488
Date: 2003-08-08
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