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

* Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> [001006 10:07]:
> > 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).
Hmm... _hatt_ > _hatten_ the t is still long, the <en> is really a syllabic
/n/. Same for the /r/ in _hatter_. My phonology-prof. used examples like
that for ambisyllabic geminates in Norwegian.


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