gemination

WRA imposes a weak prohibition on degenerate feet as the final C in word-final CVC syllables counts to be moraic supported by a number of CVC content words that surface as they are, without resorting to a final consonant gemination or vowel lengthening.

5) is more problematic, though, Hogg (1992: [section]7.79) allows consonant gemination in at least some of them.

Consonant gemination occurs in nouns intervocalically and word final as well, but adjectives show consonant gemination only intervocalically.

Perhaps the most well known difference in sound pattern between Italian and English is the pattern of consonant gemination. Unlike in English and German, single and double consonants are different phonemes in Italian.

If consonant gemination was originally motivated by considerations of contrast maintenance as suggested by H.

Treating V insertion and CV reduplication as possible co-existing outcomes of empty mora insertion in a given language also generates the further expectation that CV reduplication could alternate with consonant gemination as a means of realizing the inserted mora.