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Vowel Length in the Romance Languages

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2024
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Loporcaro, M. (2024). Vowel Length in the Romance Languages. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.715

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This article classifies all the Romance languages and dialects with regard to the phonological property of vowel length, phonemic and allophonic, considering its relationship to its correlate in phonetic substance, namely vocoid duration. It examines the rise and fall of vowel length in Romance, starting with a reference to Latin, where vowel length was contrastive as was consonant length, while in the Latin-Romance transition the former became dependent on the latter, as a part of a syllable structure conditioning. Consequently, Prot

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phonology, phonetics syllable structurestres, sconsonant gemination, dialect variation

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English

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Linguistics

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Loporcaro, M. (2024). Vowel Length in the Romance Languages. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.715

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