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Re: What is gemination? What are geminates?

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Sunday, November 5, 2000, 21:28
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:58:18PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote:
> The subject says it all. People have been talking about it all > willy-nilly, and I haven't understood much of it. Does anyone care to > explain?
[snip] Hehe, I asked the same question before. From what I can understand (correct me if I'm wrong), geminates are "long" consonants. T