The impact of vowel duration on locus equation slopes
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The aim of this paper is to examine the role of vowel duration contrast on locus equation slopes. Three Jordanian speakers produced long and short vowels with five consonants in CVC words. These words were analysed using Praat to obtain the acoustic data which was used to calculate locus equations for both long and short vowels. Results show that there is a significant difference between locus equation slopes of long v.s short vowels.
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