Charles E. Bidwell

An Alternate Phonemic Analysis of Russian.

It is common knowledge that Russian consonants occur for the most part in pairs, the members of which are distinguished from each other by the presence or absence of the feature of palatalization, and that vowels following a palatalized consonant are higher, fronter, and tenser, while between two palatalized consonants the incidence of highness, frontness, and tenseness in the vowel is still stronger. 1 Thus: