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[tezcatlip0ca]

Isn't over word boundaries kind of cheating?

I think so... In that case, whatever vs. attend, or keyring vs. fearing.

[Nortaneous]

Morpheme boundaries, still.

I think Finnish might have that distinction in vowels, when /k/ gradates to something written with an apostrophe -- I've heard that's a glottal stop, but aren't there some dialects that drop it?

What about Japanese?

[tezcatlip0ca]

Morpheme boundaries, still.

I think Finnish might have that distinction in vowels, when /k/ gradates to something written with an apostrophe -- I've heard that's a glottal stop, but aren't there some dialects that drop it?

What about Japanese?

That's what I meant. English has it as a marginal distinction over morpheme boundaries.
As for Japanese, I guess it's possible, but isn't coda /n/ usually analyzed as a distinct phoneme anyway?

[Nortaneous]

I was guessing it contrasted /a:/ with /a.a/, or /a:.a/ with /a.a:/, or something like that, but come to think of it, Middle Japanese might have contrasted Vm.V Vn.V Vt.V with V.mV V.nV V.tV...

Or they might have always been realized as geminates.