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Summary<br />

Loudness<br />

Pitch is used in words with contrastive tone or stress.<br />

Duration is used in words with contrastive stress or tone but is also<br />

manipulated for use voicing, word size, and vowel quality.<br />

Loudness is used in words with contrastive stress and may also be<br />

used to distinguish tones, but it is never as much <strong>of</strong> a major acoustic<br />

correlate <strong>of</strong> a phonological contrast as pitch or duration are. It is also<br />

used to distinguish vowel quality.<br />

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

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