Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words

At 10:32 7.2.2003 +0100, Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work wrote:

>So consonant length is just as phonemic as vowel length in
>Swedish, that is, not at all.
Or rather: in Swedish you may have consonant clusters consisting of two 
identical consonants, which hardly is the same as C length.

There are apparent counderexamples like _hårt_, which may phonetically be 
either [hOt`:] or [hO:t`], but it is underlyingly //hOrd+t// so you have 
both a morpheme boundary and an underlying potential geminate 
here.  Actually it is modern spelling which is to blame, since it used to 
be _hårdt_.

/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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