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Consonant gemination in Italian: The nasal and liquid case [PDF]
Speech Communication, 2021 Submitted to Speech Communication.
Di Benedetto M. G, De Nardis L.
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An instrumental study of consonant gemination
Journal of Phonetics, 1973 Abstract: An experiment is described aimed at investigating differences between single and geminate consonants in word-interior intervocalic position and at word boundaries. In addition the difference between short and long geminates, differences between the manifestations of geminates at word boundary in two languages and differences in production ...
Ilse Lehiste +2 more
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Consonant gemination in Buginese
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 1990 The articulation of consonant gemination in Buginese is to some extent different in continuants and in stops. Since the continuants s, r, /, ra, , and ng are produced with only partial or incomplete stricture of the articulatory cavities, their articulation, including the production of sound, can be continued for some time, and in gemination is ...
J. Noorduyn +3 more
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Phonetic variation in Italian consonant gemination
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2005 This paper presents findings on the articulatory and prosodic conditioning of Italian (lexical and post-lexical) geminate and non-geminate consonants. Phonetic and phonological prominence interact, resulting in a durational contrast which is not uniformly robust.
E. Payne
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Cross-Regional Patterns of Obstruent Voicing and Gemination: The Case of Roman and Veneto Italian
LanguagesItalian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties.
Angelo Dian, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher
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Articulation Timing and Orthographical Representation of Consonant Gemination in Sinhala
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, 2022 Consonant gemination, in general, has two major aspects: either lengthening or doubling the pronunciation of the consonant. This study mainly focuses on articulation and orthography in Sinhala, the two parts of the language where consonant gemination ...
L. S. Karunarathna
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A templatic approach to gemination in the imperfective of Tashlhiyt Berber.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 2008 Tashlhiyt Berber uses, among other processes, gemination to form the imperfective. Most accounts of this phenomenon make reference to syllabic or prosodic structure.
Mohamed Lahrouchi
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A Moraic Analysis of Compensatory Lengthening in Kermanshahi Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 The present study aims at investigating the process of compensatory lengthening in Kermanshahi Persian. According to the moraic theory, if a unit in the base layer or temporal manner has Mora, and that unit is removed in the phonological layer, its mora ...
Samira Ahmadi Varmazani, Mehdi Fattahi
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This research investigates how the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese is motivated by conformity to the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) and the Strict Layer Hypothesis (SLH) in light of Optimality Theory (OT) as a framework.
Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
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Gemination in the Mordvin Languages; pp. 81-92 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 In Erzya- and Moksha-Mordvin, vowel and consonant durations are not phonologically distinctive. There is, however, a morphophonologically conditioned difference between single consonants and secondary geminates that occurs at morpheme boundaries: E kaÅÅ
Niina Aasmäe +2 more
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