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Re: Uusisuom (phonemic????)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 13:23
Raymond Brown wrote:


> Single letters are shown by enclosing them between < > - but as these may > be misinterpreted if reading mail through a browser, many (including > myself) prefer to use { }.
I have never understood what is wrong with quotation marks: the forms "a" and 'a' far more natural to me than either <a> or {a}.
> We have been assuming > that the first is a long sound /u:/ and the second is shorter /u/.
[snip]
> We have noticed that Uusisuom often has doubled consonants. We have > assumed, since we have not been told differently, that they are not > irregular spellings (as they would be in English) but that are being used > as in Finnish or Italian, i.e. the denote geminate consonants which have > phonemic status in Uusisuom.
I was told in a private mail that doubling represents gemination in both vowels and consonants, just as in Finnish. So that point is confirmed. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

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