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Duration<br />

Duration<br />

Like pitch, duration is used as a suprasegmental property. In languages<br />

like English and Polish, it is used to mark stress.<br />

Duration can be used for segmental contrasts (singletons-geminates).<br />

Yet, even in languages with contrastive length, duration may be used<br />

to indicate stress.<br />

Other things, apart from stress, also influence vowel length, like word<br />

size or consonant voicing.<br />

DiCanio (DDL) Features 24/3/10 14 / 24

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