This study investigated the realization of Italian geminate-singleton contrasts by naive and advanced L2 speakers of Italian whose L1 was German, a language with no consonantal length contrasts. We show that geminate-singleton differences could be established by all groups although there were significant differences in the geminate-singleton duration ratios across groups (Italian > advanced learners > naive). Closer
['Baris Kabak', 'Tanja Reckziegel', 'Bettina Braun']
TIMING OF SECOND LANGUAGE SINGLETONS AND GEMINATES