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- linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length is an...
- Scottish Vowel Length Rule (also known as Aitken's law after A. J. Aitken, the Scottish linguist who formulated it) describes how vowel length in Scots...
- speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). They are usually voiced and are closely involved...
- Gemination (redirect from Consonant length)however, in languages like Italian, Norwegian and Swedish, vowel length and consonant length are interdependent. For example, in Norwegian and Swedish...
- Dutch orthography (section Vowel length)by indicating the vowel length only when it was necessary (sometimes by doubling the vowel but also in other ways). As the length was implicit in open...
homophones. Vowel length: French uses a circumflex to indicate what had been a long vowel (although nowadays this rather indicates a difference in vowel quality...- Macron (diacritic) (redirect from Long vowel mark)concerned with indicating only the length (weight) of syllables; that is why most still do not indicate the length of vowels in syllables that are otherwise...
- Kamatz (section Vowel length comparison)phonemic long vowels /aː eː iː oː uː/ and five short vowels /a e i o u/. In the later dialects of the 1st millennium CE, phonemic vowel length disappeared...
- Old Polish (section Loss of vowel length)the Latin alphabet to some features of Old Polish phonology, such as vowel length and nasalization, or the palatalization of consonants. Thus, Old Polish...
- for most of the speakers who still utilize vowel length contrastively, long /ʌː/ is actually [ɘː]. Vowel length is a remnant of rising tone, first emerging...
- Stress (linguistics) (redirect from Weak vowel)caused by such properties as increased loudness and vowel length, full articulation of the vowel, and changes in tone. The terms stress and accent are...
- Icelandic phonology (section Vowel length)nasals (rare in the world's languages). Additionally, length is contrastive for consonants, but not vowels. In Icelandic, the main stress is always on the first...
- short and long vowels, as it was inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic. Under this position, vowel length was an automatic consequence of vowel quality, with...
- Double acute accent (section Vowel length)case of á, é, í, ó, ú, and with the double acute in the case of ő, ű. Vowel length has phonemic significance in Hungarian, that is, it distinguishes different...
- Modern Hebrew phonology (section Vowel length)representation of vowel length of the vowels (assuming the vowels are even written): In fast-spoken colloquial Hebrew, when a vowel falls beyond two syllables...
Slavic languages (section Length, accent, and tone)syllables so that vowel length and accent position largely co-occur. Russian and Bulgarian have eliminated distinctive vowel length and tone and converted...
Osage language (section Vowel clusters and long vowels)sounds very similar to that of Dakota, also a Siouan language, plus vowel length, preaspirated obstruents and an interdental fricative (like "th" in English...- Patach (section Vowel length comparison)פַּתָּח patákh, IPA: [paˈtaχ], Biblical Hebrew: pattā́ḥ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a horizontal line ⟨ אַ ⟩ underneath a letter. In modern...
- Segol (section Vowel length comparison)they or tape. By adding two vertical dots (shva), the vowel can be made very short. However, the vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew....
Muscogee language (section Vowel length)of Muscogee consists of thirteen consonants and three vowel qualities, which distinguish length, tone and nasalization. It also makes use of the gemination...
- with respect to length and shortness. To understand this better a short explanation of the character and value of the several vowels is required, especially
- first thing to do. And to study all the vowel effects and all the consonant effects and the variation in vowel sounds. On his childhood inspiration to
- by vowel length, such as: On the other hand, there is some uncertainty about the length of vowels in many words, and it is not usual to mark vowel length