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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Length Contrast"”.
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Perception and Production of Geminate Consonants by English Speakers and Kuwaiti Arabic Speakers
… speakers to perceive and reproduce a novel length contrast encoded in new words, the present study aimed to determine the implications of phonemic status of consonant length on perception and production. In a condition where long consonants were derived from singletons and paired with their …
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Lexical, Pragmatic and Positional Effects on Prosody in Two Dialects of Croatian and Serbian: An Acoustic Study
… Belgrade dialect has a pitch-accent and vowel length contrast while the Zagreb dialect does not. Lexical pitch-accent and vowel length contrasts are found to influence the expression of pragmatic focus: the phonemic contrasts are enlarged in narrow focus. Tonal crowding in the phrase-final …
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The Syllable Structure and Stress Patterns of the Maithili Language
… dissertation shows that in its vocalic system, length contrast have been replaced by the tense and lax contrast. Furthermore, the author shows the lax vowels [schwa], [I], and U in word final positions and in open syllables are phonetically realized as super lax [schwa], [i], and [u]. The author …