1: Introduction.- 2: Background.- 2.1 Quantity contrasts in Finnish and Japanese phonology.- 2.2 Geminates and the mora.- 2.3 The mora-timing hypothesis.- 3: Preliminary survey: Frequencies of long vowels and geminate consonants in Finnish and Japanese.- 3.1 Purpose of the survey.- 3.2 Research questions.- 3.3 Method.- 3.4 Results.- 3.5 Summary: Implication for the experiments.- 4: Discrimination boundary between the single and geminate consonants.- 4.1 Purpose of the experiments and research questions.- 4.2 Experiment 1. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Finnish: production.- 4.3 Experiment 2. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Japanese: production.- 4.4 Discussion of experiments 1 and 2.- 4.5 Experiment 3. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Finnish: perception.- 4.6 Experiment 4. Single/geminate nasal boundary in Japanese: perception.- 4.7 Discussion of experiments 3 and 4.- 4.8 Summary.- 5: Discrimination boundary between the single and geminate consonants: A cross-linguistic study.- 5.1 Purpose of the experiments and research questions.- 5.2 Experiment 5: Finnish speakers'perception of Japanese nasal quantity contrasts.- 5.3 Experiment 6: Japanese speakers' perception of Finnish nasal quantity contrasts.- 5.4 Discussion of experiment 5 and 6.- 5.5 Summary of experiments 5 and 6.- 6: Acquisition of the nasal quantity contrasts.- 6.1 The acquisition of prosody.- 6.2 Purpose of the experiments and research questions.- 6.3 Experiment 7: The acquisition of nasal quantity contrast in Finnish.- 6.4 Experiment 8: The acquisition of nasal quantity contrast in Japanese.- 6.5 Discussion of experiments 7 and 8.- 6.6 Summary of experiments 7 and 8.- 7: Discussion: Overall cross-linguistic comparison.- 7.1 Geminates and singletons.- 7.2 Phonological representations andphonological processing.- 7.3 Mora-timing reconsidered.- 8: Summary and conclusion.- References.- Appendix II: Sample pictures and questions.- Appendix III: Data from experiments 1 and 2.- Appendix IV: Data from experiments 3 and 4.- Appendix V: Data from experiments 5 and 6.- Appendix VI: Data from experiments 7 and 8.
