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Phonetic variation in Italian consonant gemination
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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. So-called 'inherent' geminates are also found to be long post-consonantally, contrary to received wisdom, and do not form 'supergeminates' in conditions of postlexical gemination. Formant analysis of laterals reveals possible non-dur...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of the International Phonetic Association More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 153-181
- Publication date:
- 2005-12-01
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- EISSN:
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1475-3502
- ISSN:
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0025-1003
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:1752
- Deposit date:
- 2008-03-14
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- International Phonetic Association
- Copyright date:
- 2005
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Citation: Payne, E. M. (2005). 'Phonetic variation in Italian consonant gemination', Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 35 (2), 153-181. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=IPA].
N. B. Dr Payne was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge when this paper was submitted for publication.
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