- languages, such as Gr****, do not have word-internal
phonemic consonant geminates.
Consonant gemination and
vowel length are
independent in
languages like...
-
singleton or
geminate.
Geminate consonants shorten the
preceding vowel (or
block phonetic lengthening) and the
first element of the
geminate is unreleased...
- table:
Spanish is
marked by
palatalization of the
Latin double consonants (
geminates) nn and ll (thus
Latin annum >
Spanish año, and
Latin anellum > Spanish...
- w may be
geminated (doubled),
though geminate r only
occurs in ideophones. (
Geminate consonants are
written double.) Q is
inherently geminate and may occur...
-
phonemically voiced geminates. In some cases,
voiced geminate obstruents can
optionally be
replaced with the
corresponding voiceless geminate phonemes: バッド...
- and ⟨gh⟩ in the
modern knight (/naɪt/).
Doubled consonants are
geminated; the
geminate fricatives ⟨ff⟩, ⟨ss⟩ and ⟨ðð⟩/⟨þþ⟩/⟨ðþ⟩/⟨þð⟩ are
always voiceless...
- a long vowel.
Before a
geminate, all
vowels are short. A
segment such as tugg,
where a
short vowel is
followed by a
geminate consonant, is very slightly...
-
approximant [ʎ] is most
often realised as a
singleton or
geminate lateral [ʎ(ː)] or a
singleton or
geminate fricative [ʝ(ː)], and
sometimes as a
glide [j] (cf...
-
Xamtanga contrasts geminate and non-
geminate consonants. With most consonants, the
difference between a
geminate and a non-
geminate is
simply one of length...
- levels, "single" and "
geminate".
Estonian and some Sami
languages have
three phonemic lengths: short,
geminate, and long
geminate,
although the distinction...
