0 Geminate speech sounds are exactly the same and one is said immediately after the other:
geminate consonants
1 Geminates are speech sounds that are exactly the same, and one is said immediately after the other:
As shown in (9), clusters (a) and geminates (b) trigger metathesis of the final vowel and consonant of a preceding morpheme.
In this paper we provide new and striking evidence for the view that geminates are non-moraic and may occur in syllable-initial position.
We consider two representations which are consistent with the view that geminates are moraic, and that moras are excluded from the onset.
Since his focus was the origin of geminates rather than syncope as such, the latter topic is treated only in passing.
No such cases of lenitions which only affect geminates or partial geminates have been reported, however.
Such an error would not be possible if geminates are represented in singleton fashion.
Moreover, the homorganic cluster is not geminated, but instead is realized as a singleton stop closure.
Finally, when length and weight are relevant, we predict syllables containing long vowels and coda geminates to pattern to the exclusion of all other types.
