Questions tagged [gemination]
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Does conservative orthography promote "phonetic denial"?
Are there speech-communities that assert that the gemination (still) present in their orthography (still) exists in their pronunciation, but audio analysis does not support this assertion?
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Geminate consonants by total assimilation in English
Please can someone provide an example of a geminate consonant formed by total assimilation in English?
The closest I can find is from this article written by presumably Professor Ian MacKenzie:
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What does the superscript x in Finnish IPA mean?
IPA transcriptions like /muːtːuɑˣ/ from here show a superscripted x. The Finnish Phonology Wiki page says, in the Sandhi section:
Gemination of a morpheme-initial consonant occurs when the morpheme ...
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Expressing gemination in SPE
Is there a way to express gemination in SPE notation? Is it common/correct to say things like
[+anterior] -> [+anterior][+anterior] / __ [+vowel] ?
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Lengthened voiced stops and the airstream through the nose
I am going through Catford's Practical Introduction to Phonetics, experiments 31-32. After explaining how to produce voiced stops [b], [d], [g] by superimposing a closure upon the voiced air-stream, ...
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Did Classical Hebrew and/or Aramaic have allophonic continuant length?
It's well-known that Classical Hebrew had phonemic length distinctions in the stops, since geminated stops didn't turn into fricatives: compare רַב raβ "rabbi" against רַבִּי rabbī "my rabbi".
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Gemination in languages not supposed to have gemination? (especially Greek)
I have been listening to the song "Dinata Dinata" by Antique, and I noticed something. You see, I'm a Native Hungarian speaker, and my native language contains gemination.
So what did I notice?
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geminate or long consonants in Ancient Greek?
I can't decide whether Ancient Greek had "geminate" or "long" consonants. In other words did γλῶττα stand for [glˈɔːt̪.t̪a] or for [glˈɔː.t̪ːa] ? The difference between geminate and long consonants is ...
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Can a syllable be open before a lenghtened consonant?
This thread (related to this problem) can be split into two questions, the first one being restricted to Ancient Greek, the second one being more general.
(1) Let's be, by example, two syllables, the ...
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