![]() ![]() I propose that treating the geminate as a moraic onset simultaneously resolves all the issues above, provided we dispense with the stipulation that onsets are never moraic. Previous proposals have addressed this issue but have not resolved it satisfactorily, because they have created new difficulties pertaining to prosodification, syllabification or generation of insufficient or incorrect patterns. Initial geminates pose a serious problem for the theory since word-initially no coda exists to host the first half of the geminate. (It is especially easy to see the effects of consonant assimilation in clusters that span a word boundary, because the underlying form of the word-initial and word-final consonant in each is clear, based on how they are realized in non-assimilation contexts.) Mallorquí and Central Catalan respond very differently to these conditions, and so we discuss the data from each dialect in turn.Moraic theory standardly syllabifies geminates in a coda-onset configuration whereby the coda bears a mora. Our interest here is in what happens when a word final consonant forms a C 1C 2 cluster with the first consonant of a following word. Your browser does not support the audio element. (1) Simple words ending in labial, alveolar, and velar stops. The process we are discussing here is general and applies "across the board", and so the words in (1) are broadly representative.) Note that all obstruents occurring in word-final position are voiceless when nothing follows, due to a process of final devoicing.) In this study, we will be looking at how assimilation affects the final stops of the words in (1). It is especially easy to see the effects of assimilation processes across word boundaries because the basic form of the word affected by assimilation can easily be seen in contexts that are not affected by the rule. In the data that follow, we will be looking at cases in which a geminating sound process applies across a word boundary in Central Catalan and Mallorquí. In some languages, geminates are created by sound processes that result in the complete assimilation of one consonant to another. Not all languages with geminates have a lexical contrast between long (geminate) and short consonants. , but in fact, they are not articulated twice, but rather, have greater duration (are "held" longer) than their ungeminated counterparts, which sound shorter. Geminates are usually transcribed as a double consonant, e.g. We can see this contrast in the Italian pair bene 'good' and benne 'buckets'. Some languages (for example, Italian, Japanese) have an underlying contrast between geminate and ungeminated consonants. In phonological terms, geminates are long consonants that have the phonological value of twice their single counterparts. The process applies very differently in these two Catalan varieties, and so looking at both presents an opportunity to study a case of dialectal variation. In this section, we discuss a process of consonant assimilation that occurs in two dialects of Catalan, the standard dialect spoken in Barcelona (which we will refer to as Central Catalan) and the variety known as Mallorquí spoken on the island of Mallorca. Consonant gemination in Central Catalan and Mallorquí
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