Articulatory Organization of Geminates in Hungarian (original) (raw)

It is traditionally assumed that geminates undergo degemination when being flanked by another consonant in Hungarian. Since in Hungarian duration is considered to be the main acoustic cue to the singleton-geminate opposition, it appears valid to study phonetic implementation of this process in the acoustic domain. However, previous acoustic analyses lead to inconclusive results on the status of the “degeminated” consonant, while articulatory data on Japanese singletons and geminates imply that it is revealing to study degemination on the level of gestural timing. The present study compared gestural organization of geminates, and degeminated, and singleton consonants in heterorganic C-clusters, and in intervocalic positions. We obtained EMA data from 10 female speakers of Hungarian (aged 27.7). Consonant duration, plateau durations and tongue rise showed that degemination does not yield realizations equivalent to intervocalic singletons, and geminates and singletons in clusters showe...

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