Preaspiration in the Nordic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic ...

that word-medial postaspirations are generally slightly shorter than wordinitial
postaspirations for all subjects, but word-medial aspirations are
still fairly long. To facilitate comparisons, medians, means and standard
deviations are provided in numerical form in Table 4–20.
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Figure 4–93(a–d). Range of durations of postaspiration for word-initial and
word-medial fortis stops in the Western Åland data. (For an explanation of
these box-and-whisker graphs, see footnote to Figure 4–4.)
The mean duration for word-initial postaspiration ranges from 42 to
57 ms. The lowest mean, 42 ms, is from ES’s read speech data. Wordmedial
postaspiration in VCV sequences ranges from a mean of 35 to 50
ms, and, again, ES has the lowest mean duration, 35 ms. In VCV sequences,
again, ES has by far the lowest mean duration, 28 ms, while the