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On pre-accentual lengthening

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Richard Dasher  and
Dwight Bolinger
Richard Dasher
Affiliation:
(Stanford University; Harvard University and Stanford University)
Dwight Bolinger
Affiliation:
(Stanford University; Harvard University and Stanford University)
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Among the numerous factors known or suspected to affect the length of a syllable in English is the nature of the immediately following syllable. It is widely recognized (P. Fijn van Draat, 1910, p. 14; Jones, 1956, §§ 886–7; Bolinger, 1965, pp. 168–9; Lehiste, 1972, p. 2021) that in a succession of monosyllabic words a word containing a full vowel will be longer when followed by another such word than when followed by a word containing a reduced vowel.1 Van Draat's example is Money makes the mare to go versus Money makes the mare go: in the latter, ‘We pronounce mare in two syllables.’ In the former one can say that the reduced to ‘borrows time’ from the full mare.

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Research Article
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 58 - 71
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1982

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