Re: THEORY: final features, moras, and roots [was: it's what I do]

> Date:         Fri, 6 Oct 2000 07:56:59 +0100
> From:         Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
> I guess at the moment I have to say I neither agree nor disagree with that
> analysis of an internal geminate consonant.  But IIRC some languages allow
> final geminates.  Don't they occur, e.g. in Hungarian and Arabic?
IIRC, all of Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic have final long
consonants in words like hopp, katt, takk. I don't know what the
analysis is when these consonants become non-final in definite forms
(S and N) or oblique cases (I).

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