| Lemma | basic length |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1942a) |
| Titolo | Morpheme Alternants in Linguistic Analysis |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | alternant (inglese) unit (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | A vowel is here said to have basic length if it is long in all the alternants of the unit : e.g. the second /Ə/ in 'p∂l∂·la'. [A vowel is here said to have basic length] if it is always short while each of its neighboring vowels is either always long or always short. |