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 …

The debate on the phonological representation of Italian geminate consonants is almost as
old as the discipline of phonology itself. As is well known, two opposing views have been …

The representation of geminate consonants remains a controversial topic in phonological
theory. In a skeletal theoretic approach, for example, a geminate is represented as …

Two separate views have been advocated for the representation of underlying
monomorphemic (“true”) geminate consonants. Under the syllabic weight analysis of what …

This paper presents evidence for two claims:(a) that the underlying contrast between stops
in Swiss German dialects is based purely on quantity and (b) that the duration of the stop …

Le terme» gemination «se refere au dedoublement distinctif d'un phoneme consonantique.
Ce phenomene est examine en allemand, en anglais, en fran^ ais et en espagnol et couvre …

An account of consonantal 'twinning'in English and other languages. THIS ESSAY concerns
itself with gemination in English, but more specifically, it asks whether English has …

This paper presents findings on the articulatory and prosodic conditioning of Italian (lexical
and post-lexical) geminate and non-geminate consonants. Phonetic and phonological …

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 current study focused on the production of non-contrastive geminates across different
boundary types in English to investigate the hypothesis that word-internal heteromorphemic …