Research in cognitive psychology has shown a particularly strong association between phonological working memory-usually indexed by some version of a nonword repetition task-and both first language (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in children (e.g., Gathercol…
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This dissertation examines the timing properties of geminates in Bernese (a dialect of Swiss German), Hungarian, Levantine Arabic, and Madurese (an Austronesian language of Indonesia). These languages differ as to whether vowel length is underlyingly contrastive, whether long vo…