> 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?
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)