Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law

Vowels are longer before voiced than voiceless obstruents in many languages. Work on how this effect interacts with aspiration has been limited. This study presents data from Hindi and Telugu on vowel duration and other acoustic characteristics as influenced by following consonants. Hindi vowels wer...

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Main Author: Chelsea Sanker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2018-12-01
Series:Papers in Historical Phonology
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/2898

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