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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages

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2021
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Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Himmelmann, N. P., & Bickel, B. (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063

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Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations of final and penultimate words in utterances in terms of the degree to which such words are lengthened. The study uses time-aligned corpora from 10 genealogically, areally, and culturally diverse languages, including eight small, under-resourced, and mostly endangered languages, as well as English and D

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  • Seifart, Frank
  • Strunk, Jan
  • Danielsen, Swintha
  • Hartmann, Iren
  • Pakendorf, Brigitte
  • Wichmann, Søren
  • Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena
  • Himmelmann, Nikolaus P

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7

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1

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1

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14

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English

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2021

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2021-02-15

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2199-174X

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154 since deposited on 2021-02-15
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183 since deposited on 2021-02-15
182last week
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Seifart, F., Strunk, J., Danielsen, S., Hartmann, I., Pakendorf, B., Wichmann, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Himmelmann, N. P., & Bickel, B. (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063

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