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   Vowel length

   In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may etymologically be one such as in Australian English.
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   Scottish Vowel Length Rule

   The Scottish Vowel Length Rule, also known as Aitken's Law after Professor A.J. Aitken who formulated it, describes how vowel length in Scots and Scottish English is conditioned by environment.
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   Taos phonology

   Trager describes Taos stress in terms of loudness; however, he also notes in several places where stress has effects on vowel length and vowel quality.
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   Vowel

   The features of vowel prosody are usually considered not to apply to the vowel itself, but to the syllable, as some languages do not contrast vowel length separately from syllable length.
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   Canadian Aboriginal syllabics

   Later Evans introduced the current practice of writing a dot above the syllable to indicate vowel length.
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   Koine Greek phonology

   However, already in the fourth century BC, the popular dialect in Athens was moving in the direction of the Koine without differences in vowel length.
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   Traditional English pronunciation of Latin

   Loss of distinctive vowel length, creating the short/long contrasts: a [ ɐ ]: [ a ], e [ ɛ ]:[ e ], i [ ɪ ]:[ ɛi ], o [ ɔ ]:[ o ]
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   Nahuatl orthography

   This orthography does generally not mark vowel length nor saltillo (but it uses <j> to represent the sound of <h> in the dialects that have this sound.)
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   Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching

   This disregard of vowel length is such that the reference Greek-French dictionary, Dictionnaire Grec Français by A. Bailly and al., does not bother to indicate vowel length in long syllables.
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    Kala Lagaw Ya

    Saibai, Boigu, Dauan students (established late 1970s) : a, b, d (alveolar), dh (dental), e, g, i, k, l, m, n, ng, o, oe (/ə/), p, r, s, t (alveolar), th (dental), u, w, y, z (vowel length is not represented).

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Vowel length,
• Scottish Vowel Length Rule,
• Taos phonology,
• Vowel,
• Canadian Aboriginal syllabics,
• Koine Greek phonology,
• Traditional English pronunciation of Latin,
• Nahuatl orthography,
• Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching,
• Kala Lagaw Ya