Re: GSF revisited

>
> It still has not happened in some of the spoken dialects, in particular
> in Cypriot Greek (we had a young Cypriot girl staying with us several
> years ago) - but I understand some other modern variants still retain
> geminate consonants (or did retain them till recently).
>
> I'm not sure when the merging of geminates into single counterparts
> occurred. One might expect t to be part of the same process as the loss
> of vowel length distinction when pitch accent gave way to stress accent
> in the 4th cent CE - but the persistence of gemination in some areas to
> the modern day suggests to me that this merging must be much more
> recent. Because of the conservative spelling of Greek there probably
> isn't any clear indication when this string happening in the standard
> language.
>
> Anyone know more?
>
>
> --
> Ray
Ah interesting -- I'd thought that all dialects in the modern language
had simplified the geminates already. How is either EAK/GSF reflecting
this, then?

Side question: does anyone know if the Cypriot dialect sounds
different, prosodically etc., from the standard Athenian?

Eugene

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