Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/annual_report/documents/2008/Coffman%20-%20thesis.pdf

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The goal of this thesis is to motivate and examine the consequences of a constraint prohibiting geminate-length supralaryngeal closures at the same place of articulation. Evidence for this constraint is attested in Apinayé and Hayu, two languages which allow heterorganic consonant clusters across a syllable boundary while heterosyllabic homorganic consonant sequences are subject to patterns of simplification that, in their various instantiations, reduce closure length at a given point of articulation. Evidence for a ban on long closures comes from two sources: First, I show how other conceivable analyses such as syllable-based explanations and both formal and functional similarity accounts fail to provide adequate solutions for the phenomenon considered. Second, I make use of the apparent exceptions to the constraint by showing that their gestural composition is such that they are able to undergo articulatory compression, meaning that certain clusters are able to be pronounced with a shorter duration while maintaining perceptual recoverability cues, thereby avoiding violation of the long closure constraint. I conclude with a discussion of these findings and their implications for phonological theory.

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