Abstract
Although consonant length is not distinctive in English, there has been a controversy as to whether the length of geminate consonants is phonetically longer than singletons. There have been few studies comparing the length of geminates across morphological boundaries. The goal of this research is to examine how native speakers (American and British) and Korean L2 speakers pronounce geminate stops differently over various morphological boundaries. Also, this study investigates the length speakers perceive consonants as geminates from 24 participants took one production test and two perception tests. The results showed most native speakers pronounced geminates in compound and word boundaries longer than singletons. Furthermore, they could perceive geminates from the length on morpheme or word boundaries. However, Korean speakers produces both singletons and geminates longer and perceive less difference between singletons and geminates than natives do.
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