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On the vowel length in the environment _CiV

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Vowel length in Luganda.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
Luganda, a language of Uganda, is like other Bantu languages in exhibiting a contrast between short and long vowels. In many positions, however, this contrast is neutralized, for example, before NC clusters, where it is reported that only long vowels appear.
Irene Vogel, Laura Spinu
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The Phonetic Feature of Vowel Length in Dutch

Language and Speech, 1972
A basic assumption of the research reported upon here is that measurable vowel duration is at least partly controlled by an independent phonetic feature of vowel length. We have studied manifestations of this feature by measuring articulatory segment durations of a number of Dutch short vowels, long vowels and diphthongs, in nonsense words of the form /
Nooteboom, S.G., Slis, I.H.
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Vowel Length in Niuean

Oceanic Linguistics, 2014
At the surface level, Niuean has a three-way distinction between vowels of the same quality: short vowels, written as <a>; double (or rearticulated) vowels, written as <aa>; and long vowels, written as <ā>. While the Polynesian literature suggests that the distinction between long and double vowels is one based on stress assignment ...
Nicholas Rolle, Donna Starks
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Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda

Journal of Phonetics, 2005
Abstract In Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language spoken in Rwanda, there is a contrast in vowel length, as in [ɡutaka] “to scream” and [ɡutaːka] “to decorate”. This contrast is neutralized in various positions: there are only short vowels word-initially or -finally, and there are only long vowels before a nasal-obstruent (NC) sequence or after a consonant ...
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Vowel Length And Vowel Quality In Khasi

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1967
One of the most striking phonetic characteristics of languages of the Austroasiatic family such as Mon, Khmer, and Vietnamese is the great variety of vowel qualities that appear to be kept apart by native speakers despite the fact that some of them differ from each other so slightly that it is hard for the foreign observer to believe that they can be ...
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