The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
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Duration<br />
Thai vowel length contrast (Abramson, 1974; Roengpitya, 2002)<br />
pàk to stick in pààk mouth<br />
cìp to sip cììp to fold<br />
baN to hide baaN some<br />
òt to abstain òòt to lament<br />
k h âm dusk k h áàm to cross<br />
t h an on time t h aan alms<br />
Vowel length is neutralized in unstressed syllables in Thai. So, stress is not<br />
simply indicated by duration in the language, but by the presence <strong>of</strong> a<br />
durational contrast.<br />
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