Assertion: vowel's length | /r/HasProperty | distinctive
Facets:
value: in japanese
type: LOCATION
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: in punjabi
type: LOCATION
value: as "old woman"
type: OTHER
value: in latin
type: LOCATION
value: in ancient greek
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In Ancient Greek, consonant length was distinctive, e.g., μέλω [mélɔː]
text: Consonant length is a distinctive feature in certain languages, such as Arabic, Berber, Maltese, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Classical Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
text: In Latin, consonant length was distinctive, as in anus "old woman" vs. annus "year".
text: In West Iberian languages, former Latin geminate consonants often evolved to new phonemes, including some instances of nasal vowels in Portuguese and Old Galician as well as most cases of /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ in Spanish, but phonetic length of both consonants and vowels is no longer distinctive.
text: Consonant length is distinctive and sometimes is necessary to distinguish words:
text: Consonant length is distinctive in Punjabi, for example:
text: In Japanese, consonant length is distinctive (as is vowel length).