Nordic Prosody
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-03047-1/25
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Three-way opposition of consonant quantity in Finnic and Saamic languages

Abstract: This paper focusses on the ternary contrast of consonant duration in three Finnic languages and Inari Saami. We show that the ternary contrast is found not only in Estonian and the Saami languages, but also in two minor Finnic languages, namely Livonian and Ingrian. All four languages observed in the paper differentiate between single consonants, short geminates, and long geminates. The three-way opposition is manifested only on the boundary of a stressed and unstressed syllable. We study comparatively the cor… Show more

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