Timeline for Why can't we geminate affricates in sentences when talking?
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 14:21 | comment | added | Rayan Khan | Unfortunately, I didn't find anything about gemination of affricates in English on the internet. Affricates share features with both stops and fricatives, both of which can geminate in English, so it's surprising that affricates don't. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 14:14 | comment | added | Rayan Khan | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore., Right. I've updated my answer. I deleted that point. (I'm not going to address how orange juice is pronounced because the question is not about that.) | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 14:13 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | "it could be that the gemination of 'affricates' usually results in the gemination of the plosive part of the affricate rather than a geminated affricate" <--- Native speakers of English do not do this! Also orange juice is nearly always pronounced /ɒrɪnʒ dʒu:s/. Try it and see! | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:36 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:25 | history | answered | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |