Stephen Mulraney jazdI:
> David H wrote:
> > What about palatalized dental fricatives? I don't think any language
uses
> > these...are they possible to make?
>
> Again Russian, IIRC. At least a discussion on this list (mainly
involing
> Russian-speakers) a few years ago convinced me that the 's' and 'z' in
> Russian are dental sounds, and the palatal forms of them are palatal
> dental fricatives.
I can confirm, that Russian (and Ukrainian) /s/ and /z/ are as much
dental as it is possible. And both langs have palatalized variants of
them as separate phonemes.
-- Yitzik