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By Haruo Kubozono

This ebook is the 1st quantity particularly dedicated to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a characteristic of some of the world's languages together with Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, jap, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish. whereas the distinction among geminate and singleton consonants has been largely studied, the phonetic manifestation and phonological nature of geminate consonants, in addition to their cross-linguistic
similarities and modifications, aren't absolutely understood.

The quantity brings jointly unique info and novel analyses of geminate consonants in various languages the world over. specialists within the box current a variety of techniques to the learn of phonological contrasts mostly by means of introducing numerous experimental and non-experimental methodologies; in addition they talk about phonological contrasts in a much wider context and consider the behaviour of geminate consonants in loanword phonology and language acquisition. the amount takes an interdisciplinary
approach, drawing on experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, speech processing, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition.

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