> AIUI it's not really a phoneme either; it represents gemination of a > following consonant. A chroneme?
Perhaps you can argue that it is a "moreme", but they usually analyze it as a segmental, mostly architypal entity or "moraic phoneme". It isn't a simple modifier but occupies a mora for its own. /a|sa|ri/ and /a|Q|sa|ri/ differ in length in Japanese prosody. 2016-12-26 9:18 GMT+09:00 Garth Wallace <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Yifán Wáng <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Please excuse my serial posting. >> >> I recently noticed the subhead given to the LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL >> Q in the following document (at A7AF) is "Letter for representation of >> morpheme in Japanese". >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16381-n4778r-pdam1-2-charts.pdf >> >> However, to my knowledge, the letter is required for describing a >> "phoneme" of Japanese that isn't tied to specific "morphemes" (~ >> "words"). I have contacted the original writer of the proposal: >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15241-small-cap-q.pdf >> and he agrees with me in this regard. >> >> Thus I suppose "Letter for Japanese phonology" would be more desired a >> heading for this character, though subheads are not normative. What >> are your thoughts? > > > AIUI it's not really a phoneme either; it represents gemination of a > following consonant. A chroneme?
