Re: it's what I do

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Marcus Smith wrote:

> I am also making a modification to Telek, based on what I read.  I've never
> been satisfied my sequences of long vowel followed by a geminate.  Now that
> I know they are typologically unusual, I'm going to dump them.  I'm going
> to shorten the vowel and keep the geminates moraic.  (Sorry, no mimicking
> Gosiute here.)  I'm also going to keep geminate fricatives. :-)
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Missed this before. Geminate fricatives are kind of squirrelly in
Gosiute. An intervocalic [s] is very long (avg 257 msec), and
voiceless fricatives are also much longer than voiced fricatives,
though not as long as intervocalic [s] or the geminate voiceless
stops (avg 290 msec). So I've wavered on whether to call them geminate
or not. I finally came down on the non-geminate side, but it's not
written in stone.

FWIW, Tepa also has geminate fricatives, but only in derived contexts.
Also, if it wasn't clear from my previous post, Tepa closed syllables
are bimoraic, so super heavy syllables should have three moras
(ouch!).

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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