- gemination, with some
Berber verbs forming their imperfective stem by
geminating one
consonant in
their perfective stem (e.g., [ftu] 'go! PF', [fttu] 'go...
-
singleton or
geminate.
Geminate consonants shorten the
preceding vowel (or
block phonetic lengthening) and the
first element of the
geminate is unreleased...
-
verbs ending in w (which
merge with
verbs ending in y).
Reformation of
geminate verbs, e.g., ḥalaltu 'I untied' → ḥalēt(u).
Conversion of
separate words...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- an
optional onset consonant, a
glide /j/ and
either the
first part of a
geminate consonant (っ/ッ,
represented as Q) or a
moraic nasal in the coda (ん/ン, represented...
-
effects of the
shift were the
following below.
Voiceless stops became long (
geminated)
voiceless fricatives following a vowel;
Voiceless stops became affricates...
- words,
double consonants are
generally not
pronounced as
geminates in
modern French (but
geminates can be
heard in the
cinema or TV news from as recently...
