Gemination and degemination in English affixation Investigating the interplay between morphology, phonology and phonetics /
Sonia Ben Hedia.
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- Studies in Laboratory Phonology .
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In English, phonological double consonants only occur across morphological boundaries, for example, in affixation (e.g. in unnatural, innumerous). There are two possibilities for the phonetic realization of these morphological geminates: Either the phonological double is realized with a longer duration than a phonological singleton (gemination), or it is of the same duration as a singleton consonant (degemination).
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