| Lemma | duration of phonemes |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | feature of speech (inglese) |
| Rinvii | feature of speech (inglese) language (inglese) laxness of articulation (inglese) long contour (inglese) phoneme (inglese) utterance-final tone sequence (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Many utterance-final tone sequences, such as 20, are accompanied by an increased duration of phonemes and a laxness of articulation: in 'Look at his book'. the second [u] is longer than the first. We must therefore be prepared to recognize long contours (or fixed sequences) representing combinations of various features of speech. […] in some languages, the duration of phonemes is longer if the word in which they are contained is shorter. The phonemes /tæb/ are longer in 'The number on this tab has to be registered' than in 'The number on this tabulating-machine has to be registered'. |