ABSTRACT
It should be noted, however, that an underlying geminate stop has the same phonetic realization as an underlying single stop in utterance-initial position after a site where /n/ has undergone devoicing. In either case, the remaining segment is short, tense, and aspirated. Thus the phonetic segment which results from syncope, devoicing, and the replacement of /n/ by h in /nakkek-/ 'all day' in (143b) is indistiguishable from the phonetic segment which results from the application of the same rules in underlying /nakamas-/ 'easy' in (140b). Both are [kh].
