The special quality of Korean tense consonants then is that they are phonological geminates phonetically augmented with the laryngeal dimension of Glottal Width, which implicates a gesture of glottal constriction elsewhere, i.e., in singletons, the default gesture for a Glottal Width specification is that of a spread glottis, which results in heavy aspiration in the phonemically aspirated series. On this view, a tense consonant in Korean phonologically fills two skeletal timing slots, i.e., forms a geminate, and the fact that it is articulated with a discernable degree of tension, or glottal constriction, derives from the effects of a surface embellishment which (amending Avery and Idsardi, 2001). The often-cited phenomenon of ‘‘post-obstruent tensing’’ in Korean is taken here to be primarily a skeletal strengthening rather than a feature accretion. Finally, Chapter 7 discusses the phonological and phonetic status of CyGr geminate stops and affricates and suggests theoretical implications of the collective results. Chapter 6 consists of four perceptual experiments, each one testing the perception of stimuli from six languages (namely CyGr, Turkish, Italian, Polish, English, and Korean) by native speakers of one of four languages: CyGr, Cypriot Turkish, Polish, and Italian. Chapter 5 presents the second perceptual experiment of the thesis, which tests if and how speakers of CyGr differentiate perceptually between word-initial singleton, word-initial geminate, word-boundary geminate, and word-boundary super-geminate stops. Chapter 4 reports the results of a perceptual study on lexical alveolar stops, aiming to identify the cues that play a role in the perception of geminates by speakers of CyGr. Chapter 3 is a limited articulatory study of lexical alveolar stops, which supplemented the evidence from Chapter 2. Chapter 2 comprises an acoustic study of lexical and post-lexical gemination of CyGr stops and affricates, both at the segmental and suprasegmental level. The first chapter of the thesis introduces CyGr providing a brief description of its phonetic inventory with a focus on geminates. The investigation of CyGr stop and affricate gemination has also theoretical implications, such as which theoretical framework (moraic or timing-based theory) would best accommodate CyGr geminates, how CyGr geminates should be syllabified, the moraicity of geminates and its phonetic implementation, the existence of moraic onsets, and the correlation between gemination and aspiration. by means of both the closure and release. CyGr plosives and affricates were selected in particular, because their gemination is realised rather unusually, i.e. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute as much as possible to the limited knowledge about the phonetics and phonology of Cypriot Greek (CyGr) geminates by examining the acoustics, articulation, and perception of CyGr plosive and affricate gemination.
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