Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>         lage  'bare'            [lake]
>         lake  'thin gruel'      [lak:e]
>         lakke 'to the ceiling'  [lak::e]
>         sage  'frequent'        [sake]
>         saage 'get.2p.impf'     [sa:ke]
>         saage 'saws.part.pl'    [sa::ke]
Fascinating!  Are these extra-long phonemes the result of morphemic
boundaries?

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