| Abstract: |
Conference Paper · August 2015. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Glasgow.-
This paper examines the phonetic substance of the cliticised definite article in Luxembourgish, which generally renders as an alveolar lenis stop consonant, and how it relates to similar lexical alveolar stops and homorganic consonant clusters. It turns out that closure duration is the decisive acoustic feature: Compared with lexical stops, the clitic alveolar stop is realised with longer closure duration, which leads to a three-way distinction of alveolar stops. |