Chapter 5 presents the second perceptual experiment of the thesis, which tests if and how speakers of CyGr differentiate perceptually between word-initial singleton, word-initial geminate, word-boundary geminate, and word-boundary super-geminate stops. Chapter 4 reports the results of a perceptual study on lexical alveolar stops, aiming to identify the cues that play a role in the perception of geminates by speakers of CyGr. Chapter 3 is a limited articulatory study of lexical alveolar stops, which supplemented the evidence from Chapter 2. Chapter 2 comprises an acoustic study of lexical and post-lexical gemination of CyGr stops and affricates, both at the segmental and suprasegmental level. The first chapter of the thesis introduces CyGr providing a brief description of its phonetic inventory with a focus on geminates. The investigation of CyGr stop and affricate gemination has also theoretical implications, such as which theoretical framework (moraic or timing-based theory) would best accommodate CyGr geminates, how CyGr geminates should be syllabified, the moraicity of geminates and its phonetic implementation, the existence of moraic onsets, and the correlation between gemination and aspiration. by means of both the closure and release. CyGr plosives and affricates were selected in particular, because their gemination is realised rather unusually, i.e. This may suggest that varieties of Arabic distinguish between true and fake geminates based on their differing acoustics.The aim of this dissertation is to contribute as much as possible to the limited knowledge about the phonetics and phonology of Cypriot Greek (CyGr) geminates by examining the acoustics, articulation, and perception of CyGr plosive and affricate gemination. 2010), which found that word-final true geminates were 1.5 times longer than singletons, with shorter preceding vowels before geminates in a kind of “temporal compensation” relationship (121). These findings are contrary to research on word-final true geminates in Urban Jordanian Arabic (Al-Tamimi et al. Surprisingly, intervocalic “geminates” had a 1:1 ratio to their singleton counterparts, gemination being neutralized in this position. Word-final fake geminates were found to be 1.3 times as long as singleton consonants, with no appreciable difference in vowel length preceding singletons and geminates, which is similar to findings on geminates from other languages (Lahiri & Hankamer 1988). The recordings were measured in the phonetics program Praat (Boersma & Weenink 2015) for preceding vowel length, stop closure duration, and stop burst length. Two speakers read the 3MSG imperfect and 1SG imperfect, and a third speaker read the 3MSG imperfect and the 2FSG imperfect. Three speakers participated in the present study, reading fifteen verbs. Analysis of Egyptian Arabic acoustic data suggests that this does not occur in Egyptian Arabic, speakers maintaining distinctions between word-final singletons and fake geminates. Holes (2004) observes that neutralization of word-final fake geminates in some dialects of Arabic ( “he was quiet” versus “I was/you (fem.) were quiet”) may lead to phonemic stress if a loss of gemination occurs (62).
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