Re: How to represent long affricates? (was: Phonetic scripts and diphthongs ...)

Quoting Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>:

> Hey.
>
> In my dissertation on Goshute consonant phonology
> (http://roa.rutgers.edu/searchlist.php3?
> num=7&detail=&pointer=0&search=elzinga&ids=431), I represented all long
> affricates with a doubled stop consonant symbol followed by a
> homorganic fricative symbol; i.e., [ttT, tts, ttS]. I did this because
> it is the stop closure which is lengthened, not the affricate as a
> whole.
It's physiologically possible to lengthen either part of the affricate, so I
just imagined a conlang that distinguishes tS~t:S~tS:~t:S:. Anadewism demands
some natlang sports the same contrast!

                                               Andreas

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