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Re: Geminate taps/flaps

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, March 19, 2007, 18:29
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:01:59PM -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > Do geminate taps/flaps occur (phonetically)? Or do they generally > > surface as trills? >
NB: using "e" for /schwa/ (actually closer to [1]) and "é" for /e/ In Buginese (S.Sulawesi, Indonesia) all consonants are geminate after (stressed) schwa (whether from *e or derived)-- /r/ is normally a tap after the other vowels /a é i o u/; /rr/ is trilled-- so the word for 'rice' is "werre?" < *beras; there can also be morphophonemic alterations in final position between -e? when certain stress-shifting suffixes are added-- no exs. handy but it would be e.g. ['CVCe?] + i 'transitive suffix' > [CV'Cerri]. Technically of course, gemination after /e/ is predictable, so needn't be phonemicized; but there are also geminates after other vowels (from other sources)-- e.g. tarrojong 'unsteady' /tar+rojong/