title: REPRODUCING SINGLETONS AND FAKE GEMINATES.
abstract: Thirty-two native American-English speaking children and adults reliably reproduced a non-contrastive segmental length distinction encoded in a set of monomorphemic nonce words. However, participants were unable to explicitly identify the contrast in a same/different judgment task. The results support the view that grammatically irrelevant, lexically specific temporal patterns can be learned and are represented in the lexicon.
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Redford
authors.forename: Grace E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Oh
keywords: consonant duration; fake geminates; implicit phonetic imitation; relative timing