Haskins Publications

Number	1205
Year
Drawer	23
Entry Date	06/08/2001
Authors	Abramson, A.S.
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Publication	In Tingsabadh, K. & Abramson, A.S. Essays in Thai linguistics (pp.13-26). Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1205.pdf
Abstract	[Introduction] Many languages have phonological distinctions of quantity in consonants or vowels or both. Among them, Italian is known for its word-medial intervocalic short and long consonants, while Pattani Malay (Abramson, 1987) is unusual in having word-initial prevocalic short and long consonants. Swedish, some dialects of German, and Thai have short and long vowels. Finnish has length distinction for both consonants and vowels. Such distinctive length in segments is, of course, different from other communicatively relevant roles of timing in speech, e.g., in stress and intonation.
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