Re: long consonants

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:15:22 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> Are geminated consonants opposed to the short ones enough to make that
> pronounciating a germinated consonant as short would make the sense
> different or would it remains the same?
I think I already gave a minimal pair in Korean. Some other not-quite-minimal
examples:

[tasima] (sea tangle) [simmaJi] (ginseng digger)
[g@muNgo] (Korean lute) [g@mmun] (inspecting question)
[g@n1rida] (to lead, head, take care of) [g@nn@da] (to go across)

There are more examples involving [ll], which I condiser a geminate, but this
is not phonemic as [l] alone doesn't surface in Korean. Underlying [l] alone
between vowels becomes [4] (alveolar flap as in American "water" or "better").

Therefore we transcribe English [r] as /l/ [4], and English [l] as
/ll/ [ll], except
initially, where /l/ remains [l]. So "holy" becomes "holli", etc.

Seo Sanghyeon