On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:50:51 +0200, Marco Cimarosti
<marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:

> If the geminated consonant is a fricative (such as the "ss" in "asso",
> 'ace'), its sound is actually prolonged, and it spans from the end of the
> first syllable to the beginning of the second one.

One of the newer announcers on radio station WBUR in Boston is a young
woman named Gina Cervetti (sp probably correct). When she spoke her own
name on the air, she tied the end of her first name to the beginning of
her last name with an "s" sound, as if it were Ginassservetti. It took
months for her to learn to put silence between her names. She's a native
English speaker.

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