Spelling pronunciation/gemination

PakE tends to use spelling as a guide to pronunciation. One manifestation of this is in the gemination of consonants based on spelling. For example, all the speakers geminated the [p] and the [t] in [hæppɪ] happy and [lettΛr] letter. Gemination was also noticed in connected speech. For example, all speakers geminated the [m] consonant in immediately . However, exceptions to gemination were also observed in the language samples. For example, one regular exception was the word wrapped.