| From: | Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 1:30 |
Roger Mills wrote:> Perhaps Korean, I'm not sure > (the "intensive" or "glottalized" stops sound like geminates to me...).I can assure you, as a native speaker, that Korean "intensive" (third stop distinction apart from unaspirated and aspirated) is not geminates. But we have geminates anyway. Off the top of my head, I can think of a minimal pair [ima] (forehead) vs. [imma] (hey, informal). Seo Sanghyeon