The term “geminate” in phonology normally refers to a long or “doubled” consonant that
contrasts phonemically with its shorter or “singleton” counterpart. Such contrasts are found in …

This book investigates the phenomenon of morphological length manipulation: changes in
segmental length that cannot be explained by phonological means alone but crucially rely …

This study investigates medial gemination patterns in Lebanese Arabic (LA). It offers an
account of the duration patterns of quantity distinction for vowels and consonants in LA by …

Arabic dialects are characterized by the occurrence of geminate consonants in word-medial
and word-final position. This article relates the patterning of Arabic geminates to the on …

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fait pas exception. Je tiens en premier lieua remercier tres chaleureusement mon directeur …

This thesis presents an approach to phonological computation and representation which
combines the tenets of substance-free phonology, a framework which implies that …

This dissertation explores the phonetics and phonology of voicing and emphatic assimilation
across morpheme boundaries and investigates gemination word-medially and word-finally …

The crosslinguistic typology of geminate consonants demonstrates several prominent
tendencies: geminates are typically found in intervocalic positions, often after stressed …

Adopting an Optimality-theoretic approach, this paper examines gemination in English
loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA). Data come from a corpus of 1200 loanwords as produced …

Old English underwent diachronic change in its vowel inventory between its predecessor
West Germanic and Middle English. We provide an analysis of the addition and loss of …