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Re: What is gemination? What are geminates?

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 14:01
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, D Tse wrote:

> >No, that's *definitely* not glottalized, but tensed obstruents. Under > >http://yhl.freeservers.com/links2.html#LANG I have a link to a Korean > >language website that has audio clips, which is probably the fastest way > >to figure out what's going on as far as learning what it sounds like. > > I knew I'd seen it somewhere! It's the very site you linked to that > says "pp" et alia is known as glottalised! > > http://catcode.com/kintro/peas.htm > > Does anyone care to comment on what the technical name *should* be?
Very puzzling! Because those sounds sure as heck don't *sound* glottalized to me. <shaking head> Anyone know? YHL