Perception of Quantity in Estonian
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An experiment is described in which the speech rate of a short preceding or following context was manipulated in addition to that of a vowel or a consonant that carried a quantity distinction. The results showed the durations of these segments and the speech rate of their left and right context to be crucial for quantity perception.
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