Over the past century, researchers have examined data from diverse languages in order to
discover and potentially explain similarities and differences in language systems. One …

This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern
Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the …

The language under study has nine oral vowels? K??,?? G??(?? C?? 2?? Q?? 7?? W? and
five nasal vowels:? K??,??#?? 7?? W? The nasals are the contrasting counterparts of the …

2. Method The analysis was based on the word pairs tak-tack/ta: k-tak:/and låt-lott/lo: t-lot:/1
repeated at least three times each by two or more older male speakers from 62 locations for …

This study deals with data about the acoustic properties of nasal vowels of the Twi language,
spoken in Ghana, compared to the oral counterparts. Evidence from our data shows a …

In both the oral and written contexts Twi, a tone language of the Kwa group (Niger Congo)
spoken in Ghana, West Africa, has two contrasting lengths in words. Quantity is used for …

This study presents a data-driven categorisation (cluster analysis) of 86 Swedish dialects,
based on durational measurements of long and short vowels and consonants. The study …

Die phonologische Quantität im Standardschwedischen wird üblicherweise als
komplementär bezeichnet (Schaeffler 2005a: 1). Dieser Begriff beschreibt das …

This paper investigates the behaviour of vowel quantity contrasts when speaking rate is
increased and durations tend to be compressed. Two speakers, with no speech or hearing …