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Length Contrast

Length contrast is a phonetic construct that distinguishes segments, typically vowels or consonants, by the duration of their articulation, serving as a distinctive feature in phonological systems where timing differentiates phonemic or phonetic categories.

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Variants

Length OppositionQuantity Contrast

Parents

Publications

51

Vowel length in western nilotic languages

Torben Andersen · Acta Linguistica Hafniensia · 1990 · 169 citations

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Phonetics and phonology of main stress in Italian

Mariapaola D’Imperio, Sam Rosenthall · Phonology · 1999 · 163 citations

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Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda

Scott Myers · Journal of Phonetics · 2005 · 123 citations

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Nhanta historical phonology*

Juliette Blevins, Doug Marmion · Australian Journal of Linguistics · 1994 · 119 citations

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Compensatory Lengthening

Brent de Chene, Stephen Anderson · Language · 1979 · 106 citations

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Authors

122

  1. KT
    Kimiko Tsukada

    Macquarie University, Australia

    4 publications · 72 citations

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  2. YH
    Yukari Hirata

    Colgate University, United States

    4 publications · 133 citations

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  3. KI
    Kaori Idemaru

    University of Oregon, United States

    3 publications · 160 citations

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  4. KJ
    Kevin Jordan

    San Jose State University, United States

    3 publications · 74 citations

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  5. RA
    Reiko Akahane-Yamada

    Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan

    3 publications · 91 citations

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Institutions

87

  1. Colgate University

    Hamilton, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    397 citations

  2. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    62 citations

  3. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    320 citations

  4. Hosei University

    Tokyo, Japan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    91 citations

  5. San Jose State University

    San Jose, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    93 citations

  6. Institut Laue-Langevin

    Grenoble, France

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    102 citations

  7. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    81 citations

  8. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    71 citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 6 publications · 184 citations

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  3. Perception & Psychophysics

    3 publications · 74 citations

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  4. Journal of Phonetics

    3 publications · 207 citations

    3

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  5. Language

    2 publications · 118 citations

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