Some languages use rapidly repeated or stammered sounds for phonemic differentiation
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Retrieved reference sources indicate that consonant and vowel gemination, a form of sound repetition, functions phonologically to distinguish distinct semantic categories across multiple languages.
The question to be addressed in this paper is how a language which is fundamentally monosyllabic in structure can have about a dozen different reduplication types with at least eight different linguistic functions. The language under discussion, American Sign Language (ASL), is one representative of a class of languages that makes widespread use of reduplication for lexical and morphological purposes. The goal here is to present the set of phonological features that permit the productive construction of these forms and a first approximation to the feature geometry in which they participate. Reduplication forms are dependent on the event structure of the predicate and the associated aspectual modifications.
# Are there any languages that use rapidly repeated or stammered/stuttered sounds for differentiation?
Tags: list-of-languages, phonotactics, phoneme-inventories
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- Asked by: Matthew T. Scarbrough (1023 rep)
- Asked: 2017-12-11
- Edited: 2017-12-12
- Site: linguistics
## Question
Ignoring languages such as spanish that distinguish between /ɾ/ and /r/, as such is not what I refer to, are there any languages that would differentiate between say, /p/ and /ppp/. It is a weird concept, but it is something that came to mind. I suppose, with the example I have in mind, the stammer would be realized as [pĭpĭpĭ], if that helps. Recalling back on the first, differentiating between /ɾ/ and /ɾĭɾĭɾĭ/ would be what I am referring to.
I suppose the simplest example would be languages such as latin that use(d) double consonants to differentiate. e.g. anvs, [anus] (ring) vs. annvs, /an.nus~anənʊs~anːus/ (year.)
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Gemination of consonants (and long vowels) as a sound phonologically distinct from single consonants (or short vowels) is a feature common to many languag
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