Abstract
Based on the distribution of vowel qualities in medial and final syllables, I argue that there is phonological gemination in English. The analysis is cast in terms of optimality theory and has important implications in several domains: first, ambisyllabicity is not the right way to capture aspiration and flapping; second, languages where stress is dependent on vowel quality are perhaps best treated in terms of the kind of covert gemination proposed here.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Language |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language