Timing the difference: A study of gemination in Dogri consonants
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10509436" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10509436 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2025.27" target="_blank" >10.14712/24646830.2025.27</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Timing the difference: A study of gemination in Dogri consonants
Original language description
This study examines the phonetic and phonological properties of singleton-geminate contrasts in Dogri within the context where the preceding vowel is short, i.e. in CVCV: word structures. Linear Mixed-Effects (LMER) statistical results reveal that geminates are temporally nearly twice as long as their singleton counterparts (~ 70 ms), followed by consistent shortening of the preceding vowel (~ 16 ms). The remaining segments, i.e., the word-initial consonant and the word-final vowel, remain indiscriminable across both word types, suggesting no anticipatory lengthening in geminate contexts for the former, and minor shortening (but statistically non-significant) among geminates for the latter. Additional findings regarding voicing effects, phrase-level context, and overall word duration for both word types confirm cross-linguistic voicing trends: voiceless geminates are longer with added evidence of pre-consonantal vowel shortening relative to their voiced counterparts. Moreover, geminates show significantly longer durations in Fixed Phrase contexts than in Carrier Phrase. Lastly, the longer total word duration for geminates (~ 53 ms) suggests that gemination in Dogri extends beyond a local phonetic phenomenon, bearing a distinctive prosodic and phonological weight. These results posit the view that temporal elongation reflects their status as phonologically contrastive units, rather than being a by-product of durational redistribution of the segments.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica
ISSN
0567-8269
e-ISSN
2464-6830
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
177-194
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