Breaking doubled consonants into syllables

[Tom Zurinskas]

My take is that double consonants are never separated for syllabification if you go aurally.  But if you go visually, then it's convenient to do.  I like to go aurally.One interesting is that double consonants can be a hint to stress.  They usually start a stressed syllable unless involved in suffixing according to the silent e rule.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:59:22 -0400
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
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> Any cases of compounding like these, where each word contributes its own consonant, do retain their pronunciation except sometimes in fast speech. (I can imagine "bookcase" either with or without a double /kk/, for example.)
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> LH
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> On Aug 26, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> > Does the example of "bookkeeping" and related words help? There aren't many words in English with geminates, but they do exist.
> >
> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Seattle, WA
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> > On Aug 26, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> >> Is there a general rule about breaking English words with doubled
> >> consonants into syllables, either in speaking or in writing?  For
> >> example, "canning" would be spelled and pronounced "can-ning", with
> >> an N sound beginning the second syllable.
> >>
> >> My speech says such a rule is not applicable to speaking.  For
> >> example, I don't say "stop-ping" but rather -- I think --
> >> "sto-pping".  (For my "canning" I can't tell.)
> >>
> >> But I assume it applies to writing.  Are their counter-examples?
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