Re: Lïzxvööse Verbs I: ActiveTri-Consonantals

Lar Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:42:31 -0000
>
> > Date:         Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:45:32 +0200
> > From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
> >
> > Swedish has final geminates and they simply are longer, or have a longer
> > closure phase if they are stops.  It should be noted that Swedish
> > ante-pausal stops are usually released, unlike what is mostly the case
>in
> > English.
>
>Are these final geminates analysed as phonemic? IIRC, there's a rule
>in Swedish and Norwegian that short vowels have to be followed by a
>cluster or a geminate --- or is it that vowels are always long before
>a single ungeminated consonant?
STESSED vowels are always long unless followed by a cluster or geminate.
Long vowels aren't found before geminates, and only before clusters where
the consonants belong to different phonemes. Unstressed long vowels are very
rare, and in casual speak they're often undefferenciated from the
corresponding short ones.

                                                     Andreas

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