Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: 'Twinning' or Gemination Episode 48 / 27 Feb 2017 What happens when one word ends in an /s/ sound and the next word begins with an /s/ sound?

This is the sixth voiced consonant programme in our series of 45 pronunciation videos that explore the sounds of English.

It is usually posited that closure duration is cross-linguistically the most reliable and consistent acoustic feature of gemination. In this study, we conduct an acoustic analysis of singleton vs.