> D Tse wrote:
>> There's a quote from a language called Taba in which initial geminates
are
>> very common; geminate-ungeminate pairs sometimes differentiating very
>> similar concepts.
>>
>> "tala [to meet]
>> ttala [we (inc) meet]
>But, wouldn't that be long consonant, rather than actually "geminates"?
>I was under the impression that geminate was defined as spanning a
>syllable break, and "long consonant" as not.
I know. Furthermore, the question was about word-final geminates, I was just
making a tangent :)
>> Quoting the relevant section - "Phrase-initial geminates are realized in
>> _careful_ speech with a greater degree of tension and more articulatory
>> force ..." then it goes on to say that in casual speech they're
articulated
>> the same as ungeminated consonants.
>Interesting. What about phrase-medially?
I assume as a normal geminate. I suspect that the book means
"word-initial"...
Imperative