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SUMMARY:Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic
  - Dr Ghada Khattab (School of Education Communication and Language Scienc
 es\, University of Newcastle)
DTSTART:20090611T160000Z
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CONTACT:Ruth Cumming
DESCRIPTION:This paper reports on phonetic and phonological patterns of ge
 mination and vowel length in Lebanese Arabic (LA). Both short and long vow
 els occur before singleton and geminate consonants in LA leading to light\
 , heavy\, and super-heavy syllable structures: CVCV(C)\, e.g. /ˡtˁabaʔ/
 ‘dish’\; CVCCV(C)\, e.g. /ˡtˁaabaʔ/ ‘he matched’\; CVVCV(C)\, e
 .g. /ˡtˁabbaʔ/ ‘he persuaded’\; CVVCCV(C)\, e.g. /ˡtˁaabbe/ ‘sh
 e is bending over’. The moraic status of geminates and their temporal re
 lationship with their surrounding vowels has been the subject of many cros
 s-linguistic and cross-dialectal studies (e.g. Al-Tamimi\, 2004\; Arvaniti
 \, 2001\; Ghalib\, 1984\; Ham\, 2001\; Hassan\, 2003\; Ladd & Scobbie\, 20
 03\; Local & Simpson\, 1999\; Payne\, 2005\; 2006\; Ridouane\, 2007). The 
 debate revolves around whether vowels preceding geminates shorten in order
  to maintain the rhythmic structure of the word and enhance the singleton-
 geminate contrast or whether no temporal compensation occurs. Another deba
 te revolves around non-durational indices for the geminate contrast (e.g. 
 more centralized vowels before singletons\; lenition and lower amplitude i
 n singletons\; palatalisation for geminate stops) and their implication re
 garding a tense/lax distinction in singleton/geminate pairs. This study ad
 dresses these two issues using data from LA and suggests that that the und
 erlying contrast for gemination in LA is mainly temporal and its domain is
  restricted the 2nd syllable. 
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