>(c) In words like deductum you apparently would count "c" as moraic, and in
>words like remitto, the first "t" as moraic, which is not particularly
nice.
>(d) You would have to add a rule that a resonant (indeed any consonant!) is
>"moraic" before another consonant, but non-moraic before another vowel.
Maybe it is not the first consonant itself what is moraic,
but some element which is between the consonants.
We could see these words as "deduc0tum" and "remit0to",
where "0" means something what could be described as
"zero vowel" or "missing vowel". It is not phoneme,
and it is more reduced than schwa or mixed vowel,
but there must be something there -
- at least long silence between closing of the first stop consonant
and explosion of the second stop consonant,
if the first stop consonant would have no explosion of its own.
Pavel