Re: consonant length

On Fri, 14 May 1999 08:30:52 EDT "From
Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" <Lassailly@...>
writes:

>I can think of Japanese (and Finnish)  although the "length" of
>consonant is=20
>rather like a glottal stop. So maybe not Japanese (and Finnish) :-).
Finnish most definitely does make the distinction, which I wouldn't say
is merely a glottal stop:

tapaa = he meets
tappaa = he kills

tuli = fire
tulli = toll

Though a final glottal stop *can* produce the effect of a doubled
consonant:

"mene pois" (go away) has a glottal stop at the end of "mene," and is
realized
[menep pois].


There was a point here somewhere, but I seem to have lost it. :)

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