Blurb:

The present chapter brings together analytical and descriptive work on
Russian phonology and considers it from an RNT perspective. Russian has
a very complex syllable structure, with the syllable onset being the most
complex part. Maximal word-initial clusters may have four phonemes, of
which the final one is always a sonant (e.g., /r/). This resolves to wordinitial
obstruent onsets of up to three phonemes. Together they constitute
the majority of onsets in both type and token. Here we focus precisely on
obstruent onsets.