Talk:Japanese language/archive001
... of the web is that all Japanese geminate stops are glottal. The only dissenting voice ... Jul 27 (UTC) Not that all Japanese geminate stops are glottal (if they were, kk ... the phonetic level they may well be geminate stops: [ippoŋ]. — Gwalla | Talk 18 ... Nov 2004 (UTC) Note about Glottis during Geminate Consonants I am curious as to what ... consulting for the phonetic & phonological description of geminate consonants. Can you list the reference( ...
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Catalan phonology and orthography
... like villa → vila "town", where the geminate has been simplified; auricula → *oric'la ... E. g. vita → vida "life". Intervocalic geminate voiceless stops are simplified, but intervocalic geminate voiceless fricatives are preserved. E. g. bucca ... in intervocalic position is assimilated to a geminate , as in setmana "week", except usually in ... in intervocalic position is assimilated to a geminate n , as in cotna "bark", except ...
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Xamtanga language
... positions other than word-initial, Xamtanga contrasts geminate and non-geminate consonants. With most consonants, the difference between a geminate and a non-geminate is simply one of length, but the ... more complex. When not word-initial, non-geminate is realized as a bilabial or ...
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Palatal lateral approximant
... rabbit). It also makes use of the geminate version of this sound, , spelled with the ... famous Casa Batlló in Barcelona; however, the geminate is much more phonotactically restricted than the non-geminate and only occurs between vowels within a ... example). Italian has a phonemic contrast of geminate (long) versus simple (short) for most consonants ... palatal nasal spelled gn). The simple and geminate sounds are allophonic and the single ...
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Italian language
... difference as a foreign accent. Italian has geminate, or double, consonants, which are distinguished by ... all consonants except for , , , , which are always geminate, and which is always single. Geminate plosives and affricates are realized as lengthened closures. Geminate fricatives, nasals, and are realized as lengthened continuants. Geminate is realized as the trill . Assimilation ...
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Non-native pronunciations of English
... s'. However, sometimes Finnish-speakers pronounce a geminate instead in the medial position. (Finnish phonetics ... pronounce it. Tendency to make double consonants geminate, e.g. the two p's in ... a longer 'p' sound: This happens because geminate consonants are distinctive in Italian and, as ... or sokuon when transliterating, speakers may occasionally geminate consonants. Difficulty pronouncing sound except before 'a ...
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Dictionario Romanico 061 (Romanica wiki)
... PORTUGESE: geminagem UNDE: [edit] geminarv ANGLESE: to geminate ESPANIOL: FRANCESE: ITALIANO: PORTUGESE: geminar UNDE: [edit] geminate ANGLESE: 1. {pp} of geminar; 2. {adj} geminate ESPANIOL: FRANCESE: ITALIANO: PORTUGESE: geminado/a UNDE ... PORTUGESE: gémeo/a UNDE: geminar-gemination, geminative, geminate; gemino; trigemine etc. [edit] gemino (gé-)n ...
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Somali phonology
... syllable boundaries. The following consonants can be geminate: , , , , , , , and . The following cannot be geminate: , and the fricatives. Two vowels cannot occur ... the end of a syllable or being geminate. Sandhi Phonological changes occur at morpheme boundaries ...
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Japanese phonology
... to the following obstruent, resulting in an geminate (that is, double) consonant. The assimilated remains ... may be long, and consonants may be geminate (doubled). Geminate consonants are most commonly a sequence of ...
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Dahalo language
... not seem to be the case. When geminate, the epiglottals are a voiceless stop and ... CV pattern, except that consonants may be geminate between vowels. As with many other Afro ... of a grammitical function. However, lexical prenasalised geminate stops also occur. (It is likely that ...
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