Re: How many vowel lengths are there

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:33:55 -0400

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:52:44 +0200, Ruud Harmsen
<realemailseesite01@rudhar.com> wrote in
<news:qnbek09tlk3i94pqcei0n1krtei0i01f21@4ax.com> in
sci.lang:

> 14 Sep 2004 09:25:37 -0700: ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com (M. Ranjit
> Mathews): in sci.lang:

>>I mean how many phonetic (audibly distinct) lengths in all human
>>speech, not how many phonemic lengths in one language. In English
>>[tA.m@s],

> That's American English.

Not particularly: [A] is much more common in the U.S.

[...]

Brian

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