Expertlatin
- What is the vowel length rule?
- What is vowel lengthening rule in phonology?
- What are the lengths of vowels?
- What does it mean when vowel length is contrastive?
What is the vowel length rule?
In most varieties of English, for instance Received Pronunciation and General American, there is allophonic variation in vowel length depending on the value of the consonant that follows it: vowels are shorter before voiceless consonants and are longer when they come before voiced consonants.
What is vowel lengthening rule in phonology?
In general, the vowels and diphthongs in stressed syllables become shorter when followed by a voiceless consonant and lengthen considerably when followed by a voiced consonant or a word boundary.
What are the lengths of vowels?
Vowel length and related features
This gives four distinctive lengths and five physical lengths: short and long stressed vowels, short and long unstressed vowels, and a half-long vowel, which is a short vowel found in a syllable immediately preceded by a stressed short vowel, e.g. i-so.
What does it mean when vowel length is contrastive?
Vowel length contrasts refer to the phonological oppositions between long and short vowels, which can signal different word meanings (Odden, 2011).
