Accentual prominence and consonant lengthening and strengthening in Mawng
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of consonant duration to the signaling of accentual prominence in Mawng, a language spoken in Northern Australia. We compare consonants in VC sequences where the vowel is part of an accented or tonic syllable vs. non-tonic (non-prominent) VC sequences. We further analyse the contribution of vowel-consonant timing to prominence, through an analysis of VC ratios. Similar to other Australian Indigenous languages, post-tonic sonorant consonants show stronger prominencerelated lengthening effects than accented vowels.
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