Difference between revisions of "Geminate"
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*[tt] in cattail (compare consonant length in "catfish") | *[tt] in cattail (compare consonant length in "catfish") | ||
| − | In Japanese gemination is a distinctive feature | + | In Japanese gemination is a distinctive phonological feature. |
* [shusshin] (origin, source) vs. [shushin] (master, husband) | * [shusshin] (origin, source) vs. [shushin] (master, husband) | ||
Revision as of 09:47, 23 May 2014
A geminate is a consonant that has contrastively longer duration than its singleton counterpart. This phenomenon is akin to long vowels, represented a [Vː]. However, geminates are frequently represented as a series of two identical consonants, rather than as a single, long consonant.
Gemination is a contrastive process in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Classical Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Luganda, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish.
Examples
Gemination is not a phonological process typically present in English, but can be found in compound nouns.
- [tt] in cattail (compare consonant length in "catfish")
In Japanese gemination is a distinctive phonological feature.
- [shusshin] (origin, source) vs. [shushin] (master, husband)
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