Timing of legal and illegal consonant clusters in Swedish
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The timing of consonant clusters in Swedish has been studied intensively. However, from a phonological perspective coda-internal timing with regards to quantity has not yet successfully been studied. This study intends to provide more data on the duration of Swedish consonant clusters: (a) sonorant-sonorant clusters and (b) sonorant-obstruent clusters. In addition consonant clusters illegal in Swedish phonology are considered as well to investigate general timing mechanisms underlying coda cluster timing. The results seem to reject a phonological analysis of a long consonant as the first component in VC:C cluster. Rather, articulatory effects of neighboring segments play a role in coda-internal timing.
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