Re: consonant length
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 14, 1999, 0:24 |
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>dunn patrick w wrote:
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>> Is there any natlanguage that differentiates between consonants of
>> different length, for instance, s and ss or m and mm?
Well, Hebrew sort of does that, although the consonant-length is tied up
with vowel-length and consonant-fricativization and other things, so
you'd never really find a situation where the consonant length alone
would be the only thing differentiating between two words.
-Stephen (Steg)
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