01245nas a2200121   4500008004100000245005900041210005800100300001400158490000600172520086400178100002001042856006101062       1982                        eng d00aLa structure du consonantisme fran{\c c}ais et bulgare0 aLa structure du consonantisme fran c c ais et bulgare  a129–1350 v73 aProceeding from А. Meillet’s idea of the tripartition of the phoneme systems in the Indo-European languages and from N. S. Trubetskoy’s theory of the three-dimensionality of phoneme units, further developed by A. Martinet, A. Reformatskij and the author of the present paper, a projection is formed which shows and reflects, on a contrastive basis, the inner structure of the relatively simplified French consonantism and of the relatively complete and symmetrical Bulgarian consonantism. The model of the two consonant systems is relevant to the explanation of a number of phenomena.It can interpret and predict all types of consonant changes in the two languages in terms of position and system. Besides, it proves the presence of modality in the French consonants and the absence of palatalism, a common feature of all consonant phonemes in Bulgarian.1 aSimeonov, Boris  uhttp://www.scripta-bulgarica.eu/bg/biblio/simeonov1982-0