Vowel length
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vowel-length-176-10777033
title:
Vowel length
text:
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages, some Finno-Ugric languages, Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan, and Xhosa. Some languages in the past likely had the distinction even though their descendants do not, with an example being Latin and its descendent R
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Duration of a vowel sound
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_length
date created:
2004-09-17T09:47:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:57:26Z
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