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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
core   +1 more source

Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration play? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Presentation of infrequent clinical case of dental gemination of the permanent upper left lateral incisor

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Medicina Militar, 2022
Introduction: Gemination is the division of a dental follicle that results in a tooth with two crowns, where the number of teeth in the arch does not vary.
Sair Andrés Miquet-Vega   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Interaction of Stress, syllable Structure, and Gemination in Jordanian Arabic (JA)

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000
The purpose of this study is to show that certain cases of heteromorphemic gemination can be better explained through showing their relatedness to syllable structure and stress (cf. McCarthy (1979) and (1986)).
Al-Tamari, Emad
doaj   +1 more source

An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
core   +1 more source

المماثلة الصوتية والإدغام في الصوتيات العربية -المصطلح والمفهوم بين القدماء والمحدثين

open access: yesAl-Lisaniyyat
Assimilation and gemination are among the combinatorial phonetic terms which have experienced some conceptual confusion among Arabic phoneticians (ancient and contemporary).
Mohamed Oulddali
doaj   +1 more source

Complete Bilateral Gemination of Maxillary Incisors with Separate Root Canals

open access: yesCase Reports in Dentistry, 2014
Developmental anomalies in the hard tissue are seen frequently in dental practice. Gemination and fusion are the most commonly encountered anomalies, and distinction between the two is always challenging.
Lodd Mahendra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Covariants of Gemination in Eastern Andalusian Spanish: /t/ following Underlying /s/, /k/, /p/ and /ks/

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
In Eastern Andalusian Spanish, consonants are deleted in syllable-final position, triggering regular gemination of a following consonant, even across word boundaries.
Alfredo Herrero de Haro, John Hajek
doaj   +1 more source

Blocking of word-boundary consonant lengthening in Sienese Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper examines an aspect of Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS), the lengthening of word-initial consonants following certain words e.g. tre [mm]ele ‘three apples’ in Italian. Most phonological accounts claim the phenomenon is predictable and obligatory (
Hajek, John   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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