Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus
Published online on November 30, 2025
Abstract
Language and Speech, Ahead of Print.
Itunyoso Triqui (Otomanguean: Mexico) has a typologically uncommon contrast between singleton and geminate consonants which occursonlyin word-initial position of monosyllabic words. In this paper, we examine how functional factors contribute to the ...
Itunyoso Triqui (Otomanguean: Mexico) has a typologically uncommon contrast between singleton and geminate consonants which occursonlyin word-initial position of monosyllabic words. In this paper, we examine how functional factors contribute to the ...