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

In a message dated 10/3/00 10:05:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

> Speaking of which, how did _tu_ come to be used as a gemination marker?
ahah! a thought! I was just answering something else and realized there's a
word that has two forms in modern Japanese:

atatakai/attakai. It's the adjective "is warm" (its other forms follow the
same pattern).

so interestingly, in a repeating situation, tata can contract to tta. maybe
this has something to do with the use of the t-row u character?