vowel duration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvowelandduration
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vowel
noun[C]
uk/vaʊəl/us/vaʊəl/
a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, ...
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duration
noun[U]
uk/dʒʊəˈreɪ.ʃən/us/duːˈreɪ.ʃən/
the length of time that ...
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Furthermore, thevoweldurationpatterns found in the languages with mora sharing are strikingly similar to those reported for other cases of mora sharing.
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This section continues with a discussion of two hypotheses proposed in the phonetic literature to account forvowelduration.
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Moreover, for the shorter words produced in biasing passages, precedingvoweldurationpreserved the phonemic contrast.
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The results from young adults in both studies showed that precedingvoweldurationdistinguished phonemic voicing in pairs like writer and rider.
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Both overall word duration andvoweldurationwere affected by semantic predictability.
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Voicing effect onvoweldurationis not an absolute universal.
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Total mean measurement errors did not exceed 21 ms for word duration, 3 ms forvowelduration, and 3 ms for closure duration.
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Intrinsicvoweldurationis exploited differently by the various dialects.
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Finally, and most markedly, there was a large difference invowelduration, such that sentence-final vowels undergo significant lengthening preceding the sentential boundary.
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All syllables were analysed instrumentally in order to determine thevowelduration, voice onset time (if applicable), and fundamental frequency contour.
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Segmental prominence here is based on a scale ofvoweldurationas determined by vowel height.
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Table 2 also shows the results ofvoweldurationby age averaged across the two passage types.
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Neither precedingvoweldurationnor closure duration of the \\t\\ or \\d\\ preserved the voice contrast.
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For this pair, then, onset of the precedingvoweldurationwas also the onset of word duration (see above).
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But it moves along a scale of intrinsicvowelduration.
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The differences in intrinsicvoweldurationare interpreted as a sonority hierarchy with respect to high tone association.
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We therefore investigatedvoweldurationin disyllabic and trisyllabic nouns with initial stress, as well as in trisyllabic nouns with non-initial stress.
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However, for the nine- and twelve-year-olds, total word duration and precedingvoweldurationpreserved the \\t\\-\\d\\ contrast, but this interacted with semantic predictability.
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The outstanding features of these dialects are extendedvoweldurationand increased intensity in the stressed and immediately pretonic syllables.
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