On the upcoming LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q

[Yifán Wáng]

> 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 <gwalla at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Yifán Wáng <747.neutron at gmail.com> 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?