Perceived Vowel Duration in Civili: Minimal Pairs and the Effect of Post-vocalic Voicing
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Vowel duration has been an issue in the study of Civili. Although minimal pairs based on vowel duration can be established at both perceptual and physical level, vowel lengthening still occurs in the context of voiced consonants in the language. A comparison between a measured physical duration and an experimentally perceived duration confirms the phonemic distinctiveness of vowel length and indicates the voicing effect of the post-vocalic consonant at the microphonetic level.
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