Abstract
An experiment is described aimed at investigating differences between single and geminate consonants in word-interior intervocalic position and at word boundaries. In addition the difference between short and long geminates, differences between the manifestations of geminates at word boundary in two languages and differences in production of geminates by native and non-native speakers of the two languages were examined. The two languages chosen were Estonian and American English, the consonants were bilabial plosives, and the principal technique employed was electromyography. Evidence was found of rearticulation in the production of Estonian intervocalic long and overlong consonants as well as junctural C + C sequences. There was no evidence for rearticulation in English junctural C + C sequences. Both speakers carried their articulation patterns over from the native to the non-native language.
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