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Abstract
This paper presents an experimental investigation of durational variation inlexical and post-lexical geminate alveolar laterals, under different stress conditions,in Cypriot Greek. Lexical geminates are found to be longer than post-lexicals,and both geminates and non-geminates are longer in word-initial position. Thedurational distinction is robust in all conditions, but particularly for word-initiallexical geminates. Post-lexical geminates and word-initial lexical geminates aresignificantly longer when pre-stress. Word-initial geminates are longer when precededby a word-final nasal (the condition for post-lexical gemination), thus creatinga kind of ‘supergeminate’ consonant and indicating that word-final nasals arenot deleted, as has previously been thought to be the case. Implications for thephonological analysis of Cypriot Greek geminates and the role of prosodic andphonotactic restrictions are considered.
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