Variations in Vowel Duration: Phonemically or Phonetically Conditioned?

Belasco, Simon

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“…This phenomenon is also described inBelasco 1958, Zimmerman & Sapon 1958, Peterson & Lehiste 1960, House 1961, Chen 1970, and Maddieson 1996 FollowingDelattre (1962) andHouse (1961), the vowel duration differences observed before voiceless versus voiced consonants are to some extent…”

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Faroese Preaspiration: A Nucleus/Onset Interaction Analysis

Voeltzel

2022

J Ger Ling

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This paper focuses on Faroese preaspiration, a phenomenon observed in Western Nordic and in some Eastern Nordic dialects, where fortis stops are preceded by a glottal frication noise in specific contexts. After observing all environments where the mechanism is triggered, I provide phonological representations of the phenomena based on Government Phonology 2.0. In this model, the segmental structures contain melody but also space, which allows for intersegmental relations such as lengthening, even without adding new morphological material. As preaspiration depends on the vowel preceding the fortis stop—more precisely, on its vocalic quality and length—I propose analyzing preaspiration as a spreading of the fortis consonant toward the vowel on the left. In doing so, I provide a unified analysis of all environments in which preaspiration occurs.*

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Faroese Preaspiration: A Nucleus/Onset Interaction Analysis

Voeltzel

2022

J Ger Ling

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“…Vowels preceding voiceless stops are noticeably shorter in English. The shortening effect of voiceless stops on preceding vowels has been replicated in many studies [Belasco, 1953[Belasco, , 1958Denes, 1955;Peterson and Lehiste, 1960;House, 1961;Delattre, 1962;Sharf, 1962;Wolf, 1978;and many others]. Gussenhoven [2004] understands this effect as enhancement in the sense of Stevens and Keyser [1989].…”

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Phonetic Duration, Phonological Quantity and Prosodic Structure in Inari Saami

2010

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Inari Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language of Northern Finland, is reported to have a three-way surface contrast in consonant length (short, halflong and long). We studied disyllabic words (C)V1CxV2(C) using data from 5 native speakers under two conditions, with short and long preceding vowel, V1, and found support for the claim that Inari Saami has a ternary contrast in consonant length. The three-way length contrast is more robust following a short V1. The duration of V2 correlates negatively with the length of the medial consonant. However, there is one major departure from this pattern. When both V1 and the medial consonant are long, V2 is also longer. This finding supports the idea that disyllables of this class differ from the others in their prosodic structure in having two metrical feet rather than one. This interpretation tallies with independent evidence from synchronic morphophonology and the historical development of the prosodic system of Inari Saami.

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“…13 It is therefore held to be universal, i.e., the result of 12 A consequence of this move is that x-slots are quite different from what phonologists usually refer to as timing units: voiceless obstruents are 'geminates' and phonetically lengthened vowels that are phonemically short occupy two units (just like phonemically long vowels that receive no phonetic extra length), while their phonemically long congeners encompass 3 slots. 13 Beyond the references mentioned above, the body of literature regarding individual languages or cross-linguistic studies includes Belasco (1953Belasco ( , 1958, Hoffman (1958), Zimmermann & Sapon (1958), Delattre (1962), Hogan & Rozsypal (1980), Luce & Luce (1985), Kluender (1988), van Santen (1992).…”

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Voice-induced vowel lengthening

Scheer¹

2017

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Vowels are longer before sonorants and voiced obstruents than before voiceless obstruents. This pattern is found in many languages and by some is argued to be universal. In some languages it has been phonologized and gives rise to alternations. Three cases are examined: Western Slavic, English and German. In all cases, I argue that the mechanism which modifies vowel duration in a voiced context is phonetic in kind (not phonological), and involves voice-induced lengthening, rather than so-called ‘pre-fortis clipping’. Phonetic length can be phonologized by its inscription into the lexical recording of morphemes. Phonological processes such as (Canadian) raising in English or oo > uu raising in Western Slavic may then take this lexical length as an input. This analysis allows us to keep spontaneous and non-spontaneous voicing truly separate: voicing in sonorants and vowels is never phonologically active, its spreading can only occur in the phonetics (‘passive voicing’ in Laryngeal Realism). A strong argument in favour of this view is the fact that cross-linguistically sonorants appear to always be among the triggers of voice-induced vowel lengthening: there are no cases where vowels lengthen before voiced obstruents, but not before sonorants. This is predicted if lengthening is phonetic, but unexpected if it were phonological: the phonologically active voicing of obstruents should at least sometimes be the only trigger.

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Variations in Vowel Duration: Phonemically or Phonetically Conditioned?

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Faroese Preaspiration: A Nucleus/Onset Interaction Analysis

Faroese Preaspiration: A Nucleus/Onset Interaction Analysis

Phonetic Duration, Phonological Quantity and Prosodic Structure in Inari Saami

Voice-induced vowel lengthening

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