- gemination, with some
Berber verbs forming their imperfective stem by
geminating one
consonant in
their perfective stem (e.g., [ftu] 'go! PF', [fttu] 'go...
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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...
-
French words,
geminate consonants are
relatively rare in the
pronunciation of such words. The
following cases can be identified. The
geminate pronunciation...
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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...
-
frication noise,
which is
shorter for affricates. When
affriates are
geminated, it is the
duration of the
plosive closure that is lengthened, not that...
- 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...
- Indo-Aryan to
Hindi are:
Compensatory lengthening of
vowels preceding geminate consonants,
sometimes with
spontaneous nasalisation: Skt.
hasta "hand"...
- the
consonants n, m, r, w, or y. (In
words and
loanwords that
require geminating these consonants, ン (n), ム (mu), ル (ru), ウ (u), and イ (i) are usually...
-
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...
