Abstract
In this study, we examined the physiological and acoustic characteristics of plosive- and fricative-type geminates, three each of minimal pairs for the plosive- and fricative-type geminates were recorded in different speaking rates, with there ranges are from 3 to 13 mora /s. Physiological analysis showed that (1) an opened duration of vocal folds depends on a speaking rate; (2) a closing duration of vocal folds depends on a speaking rate but an opening duration does not. Acoustical analysis showed that, when a speaking rate increases, (1) logarithm of closure and fricative durations linearly decrease; and (2) a ratio of the duration of a singleton to a geminate decreases.
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