Breaking doubled consonants into syllables

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 26 20:35:32 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> the lack of evidence for geminates in English

Away from affixation, right? Or do you say

_[@]necessary_

and not

_[^n]necessary_

?

Or do you punt and say "not necessary"? :-)

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