Lengthening of segments at the end of prosodic domains is commonly considered a
universal phenomenon, but language-specific variation has also been reported, specifically …

Phonetic aspects of many languages have been documented, though the breadth and focus
of such documentation varies substantially. In this survey, phonetic aspects (here called …

Listeners can use variation in speech segment duration to interpret the structure of spoken
utterances, but there is no systematic description of how speakers manipulate timing for …

This acoustic study explores compensatory influences of foot structure on segmental
duration and quantity in the foot nuclei of 22 trisyllabic and four disyllabic structures in …

The Estonian language is unique in that it differentiates between three degrees of length in
vowels, as well as in consonants. Phonologically, the ternary system of Estonian quantity …

The paper traces the evolutionary path of the non-initial vocalic length contrast in the Finnic
varieties of Ingria and adjacent areas, from long vs. short vowels to short vs. no vowels. On …

Secondary gemination is a remarkable but little-known phonological process of singleton
consonant lengthening into geminates in certain prosodic positions in Finnic languages. Its …

This study presents duration data for six female speakers of Central Arrernte, based on
continuous read speech. The vowels of Arrernte are treated separately in the durational …

Estonian and Japanese are quantity languages both exploiting the duration cue to
implement phonological contrasts. However, the quantity systems of the two languages are …

The aim of this study was to investigate vowel and consonant quantity in Finnish, a typical
quantity language, and to set up a reference corpus for a large-scale project studying the …