The Composition of the Phonological Consonant System and its Functioning in Lithuanian and French Languages

The aim of the article is to examine the composition of the phonological consonant system and its functioning in Lithuanian and French languages. We will describe the phonological consonant systems of both languages on two levels – syntagmatic and paradigmatic. On the syntagmatic level we will discuss the structure and regularities of explosive, implosive consonant distributions and inner consonant collocations. On the paradigmatic level we will focus on the paradigmatic consonant identification – peculiarities of consonant oppositions, their neutralization and the comparison of the inventory of differential features in the languages of our concern. In this work we will base ourselves only on the literary pronunciation of the French language. Colloquial French has its own peculiarities which determine the appearance of new structures of consonant collocations, therefore their description can be the object of another scholarly work. We will present French nouns without articles as to describe explosive consonant groups, it is most convenient to take a noun without an article. The structures and collocation regularities of consonant collocations are best reflected only in this form. Soft vowels and affricates which do not exist in the French language are not discussed in the article