Hume et al.(1997) argue that in Leti, an Austronesian language spoken on Leti Island off the
coast of East Timor, geminate consonants are not moraic. In particular, they focus much of …

The often-cited phenomenon of ''post-obstruent tensing''in Korean is taken here to be
primarily a skeletal strengthening rather than a feature accretion. On this view, a tense …

The present study examines palatalized r-sounds, ie flaps, trills and approximants, from a
cross-linguistic perspective. Following similar observations made by earlier linguists, it will …

Leti is spoken on the island with the same name near the Indonesian-East Timorese border.
This small Austronesian language became known among linguists for the complex patterns …

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 …

On souligne souvent qu'une these n'est jamais l'œuvre d'une seule personne, et celle-ci ne
fait pas exception. Je tiens en premier lieua remercier tres chaleureusement mon directeur …

Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the
Gunwinyguan family. The morphological structures of Ngalakgan require a two-level …

Length is the phonological correlate of durational differences between sounds, tied to the
phonological concept “quantity.” The concept of length usually considers duration …

In this paper, I investigate the role of the mora in providing an adequate account of
wordinternal prosodic organization and its phonetic realization. I review several …