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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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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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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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Gemination Strategies in L1 And English Pronunciation of Polish Learners [PDF]
, 2014 Polish is a language where true geminates appear and the occurrence of a double consonant letter in spelling corresponds with double or at least prolonged consonant articulation regardless of the morphological structure of the word.
Andrzej Porzuczek +29 more
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Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in Italian [PDF]
, 2002 This paper is a preliminary phonetic exploration of aspects of the well-known Italian sandhi phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (henceforth RS), which involves the gemination of word-initial consonants under certain conditions, eg dei [k]ani ‘some ...
Absalom, Matthew +2 more
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Initial lenition and strength alternations (v/b) in Neapolitan: A laryngeal Branchingness condition
Glossa, 2020 In Central and Southern Italian dialects, the word-initial position plays host to a large number of strength-based alternations involving voiced stops. In this paper we look specifically at the v/b pair in Neapolitan.
Michela Russo, Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
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Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration play? [PDF]
, 2004 This paper compares the acoustic phonetic appearance of voiced & voiceless geminate stops in Sienese Italian. In our spontaneous speech data voiceless geminate stops are frequently preaspirated, which is an extremely rare phenomenon cross-linguistically.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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