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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367571603321

Autore

Ben Hedia Sonia

Titolo

Gemination and degemination in English affixation : investigating the interplay between morphology, phonology and phonetics / / Sonia Ben Hieda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2019

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-96110-188-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Studies in laboratory phonology

Soggetti

Linguistics - English

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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).