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In phonetics, gemination or consonant elongation happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short consonant. Gemination is distinct from stress and may appear independently of it. Gemination literally means "twinning", and is from the same Latin root as "Gemini".
Consonant length is distinctive in some languages, for instance Arabic, Berber, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Classical Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, and Tamil. Most languages (including English) do not have distinctive long consonants. Vowel length is distinctive in more languages than consonant length, although several languages feature both independently (as in Arabic, Japanese, Finnish, and Estonian), or have interdependent vowel and consonant length (as in Norwegian and Swedish).
Lengthened fricatives, nasals, laterals, approximants, and trills are simply prolonged. In lengthened stops, the obstruction of the airway is prolonged, delaying release. That is, the "hold" is lengthened. Long consonants are usually around one and a half or two times as long as short consonants, depending on the language.
Italian may refer to:
Vulgar Latin or Sermo Vulgaris ("common speech") is a generic term for the nonstandard (as opposed to classical) sociolects of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Works written in Latin during classical times used Classical Latin rather than Vulgar Latin, with very few exceptions (most notably sections of Gaius Petronius' Satyricon). Because of its nonstandard nature, Vulgar Latin had no official orthography. Vulgar Latin is sometimes also called colloquial Latin, or Common Romance (particularly in the late stage). In Renaissance Latin, Vulgar Latin was called vulgare Latinum or Latinum vulgare.
Vulgar Latin is often confused with Proto-Romance. Proto-Romance is a proto-language, i.e., the latest stage common to all of the Romance languages. Because some of the less familiar Romance languages branched off earlier than others (Sardinian in particular), followed by Romanian and related Eastern Romance languages, it is also common to reconstruct later stages: e.g., Proto–Continental Romance (after Sardinian branched off); Proto–Italo-Western Romance (after Sardinian and Romanian branched off); and Proto–Western Romance (after the branching-off of Sardinian, Romanian, and the central and southern Italian languages, including standard Italian).
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According to our textbook, Teaching Pronunciation, lengthening occurs when two identical, or geminate, consonants come together as a result of the juxtaposition of two words. There is one single, elongated articulation of the consonant. Essentially this means when one word ends on the same sound as the following word, native speakers generally connect the two words and only say the sound once.
Pronunciation is very important when learning any language, especially Italian. Why? Well, if no one can understand you, then have you really learned how to speak Italian? In this video I talk about how you can improve your Italian pronunciation of double consonants, or double sounds. If you keep practicing and improving on your Italian pronunciation and comprehension, you will be speaking Italian in no time! ❤ ITALY MADE EASY ACADEMY Learn Italian online WITH ME here: https://academy.italymadeeasy.com Get more Italian resources, help and support and ★ Join the Top Italian Language Program: From Zero To Italian www.fromzerotoitalian.com Are you wondering how you can learn basic Italian and learn to speak Italian as fast as possible? Then you’ve stumbled upon the right place! Italy M...
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In this eight lesson, we will learn how to read and write the /y/ vowel sound and double consonant sounds using the Hiragana characters we already learned in previous lessons. Hiragana chart with sound clips: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/more_sounds Blog post: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/blog/2011/10/24/japanese-from-scratch-1-1-8-y-vowel-and-double-consonant/
The lengthening diacritic ː is used to show increased duration of a segment. This can be in the case of held vowels – /hiːd/ or when a doubled of consonant merges into one lengthened form (a geminate). This tutorial examines when (and when not to) to use this diacritic.
Explanation of why we have double consonant letters in English e.g. pinning as opposed to pining, hopping as opposed to pining. A doubled consonant tells you how to pronounce the vowel before it.
The next in a series of videos comparing Vulgar Latin and the Romance languages. This video introduces the pronunciation of Vulgar Latin and highlights some of the important differences in pronunciation across the Romance family. I share a lot of information, so please pause for more time to read all of the examples. This video takes on the following topics: 1. Vowels - basics - long vs. short (including quantity vs. quality of long vowels) - diphthongs (including diphthongization of short vowels) 2. Consonants - basics - double (geminate) - palatalization (consonant + /j/) - lenition 3. Syllables - syllable structure (phonotactics) - accentuation (stress accent) - elision of medial vowels/syllables - elision of final vowels/syllables The Grammar of Romance has an associat...
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It is well known that phonemes with otherwise similar phonological behavior may be produced differently (e.g. VOT, (Cho & Ladefoged, 1999)) or perceived differently (e.g. consonant confusions (Harnsberger, 2001)) depending on the language. Discussion of these facts has often remained at the observational level. In this talk I will present evidence that fine details of production and perception owe to the fact that speakers and listeners have statistical expectations about segments and words in their languages. I will draw evidence for this conclusion from a series of production and perception studies, drawing on durational difference between singleton and geminate consonants in Cypriot Greek and Italian, the perceptual similarity of consonants and word duration in Kaqchikel Mayan, and lexi...
This video will teach you how to achieve a more fluent and natural speech through one of many useful connected speech techniques, called “catenation”, which happens every time one word ends with a consonant (or consonant sound) and the following word starts with a vowel. Watch to learn more about it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TeawithMarina?sub_confirmation=1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/teawithmarina/
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Learn how to achieve a more fluent and natural speech through one of many useful connected speech techniques, called "gemination", which happens every time a word ends with the same letter/sound as the beginning of the next. Watch to learn more about it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TeawithMarina?sub_confirmation=1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/teawithmarina/