The GEMMA project database
INTRODUCTION
Some languages allow the clustering of the same consonant in vowel contexts and this phenomenon is known as "consonant gemination." Gemination plays a particular role in the phonology of such languages because several words change meaning as a function of singleton versus geminate consonants (minimal pairs). The GEMMA project, started in 1993, investigates the role of gemination in the Italian language.DATABASE
| General info: | The database includes a set of vowel–consonant–vowel (VCV, the nongeminate case) and vowel–consonant–consonant–vowel (VCCV, the geminate case) utterances in the symmetric environment of the vowels [i, a, u] for all consonants that in the Italian language appear in both single and geminate form: stops ([b], [d], [g], [p], [t], [k]), affricates ([tʃ], [dʒ], [ts], [dz]), fricatives ([f], [v], [s]), nasals ([m], [n], ) and liquids ([r], [l]). |
| Database structure: | The database is organized in five folders, one for each family of consonants: "Affricates", "Fricatives", "Liquids", "Nasals" and "Stops". Each folder is organized in six subfolders, one for each speaker: "FS1" (Female Speaker 1), "FS2", "FS3", "MS1" (Male Speaker 1), "MS2" and "MS3" Files in each subfolder are named as follows: |
| Subjects: | Six native adult speakers of standard Italian (three male, three female) with no known articulatory impairment. |
| Sample type: | 1-channel, signed integers, 16 bits |
| Sample rate: | 10 kHz |
| File format: | .wav |
| Language: | Italian |
| License: | The GEMMA project database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License  . |
| Availability: | please contact us by email |
| How to cite: | Please refer the following works in your publications:
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