“…We failed to find that palatalization had any effect on the duration of the consonants in our articulatory study (Malmi & Lippus 2019) and our acoustic study (Malmi, Lippus & Meister 2022) of Estonian palatalization. On the other hand, the vowels that precede palatalized consonants have been shown to be longer (Lehiste 1965, Liiv 1965, Bolla 1981, Zsiga 2000, Cavar 2004, Kavitskaya 2006, Kochetov 2006, Ordin 2010, Teras & Pajusalu 2014, Stoll, Harrington & Hoole 2015, Malmi & Lippus 2019, Malmi, Lippus & Meister 2022.…”