title: Temporal characteristics of Punjabi word-medial singletons and geminates.
abstract: Many studies have investigated the temporal characteristics of the word-medial singletons and geminates in Indo-Aryan languages. However, little is known about the acoustic cues distinguishing between the word-medial singletons and geminates of Punjabi. The present study examines the temporal characteristics of Punjabi word-medial singleton and geminate stops in a C1V1C2V2 template. The results from five Punjabi speakers showed that, unlike previous studies of Indo-Aryan languages, the durations of C2 and V2 are the most important acoustic correlates of singleton and geminate stops in Punjabi. These findings therefore point towards the cross-linguistic differences in the acoustic correlates of singletons and geminates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia qandeel.hussain@students.mq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Qandeel
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Hussain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010699:Phonation; D010700:Phonetics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult