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

In a message dated 10/3/00 8:34:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, smithma@UCLA.EDU
writes:

> You are forgetting geminates -- they are also moraic.
>
>  >The Japanese syllabry (hiragana) actually has characters for moras,
>  >not syllables....
>
>  Indeed.  So don't forget the _tu_ character used to mark geminate
consonants.
>
oh yeah, the "little tsu" that doubles consonants. that I did forget, but
geminates..... well, it's hard to forget something that you didn't know
anything more about than the word.....there's all this talk of geminates
right now on the list.....what IS a geminate? in layman's terms, please, the
explanations I've seen so far on the list have been way beyond me.