vowel length

There is also an interaction between tone and vowel length.

A silent h indicates the vowel length in certain cases.

There is clearly at least a two-way contrast in vowel length.

Vowel length is phonemic and plays an important role in the language.

Vowel length and quality is independent of the stress.

Vowel length is not distinguished - all vowels are short.

Knowing this fact, some interesting cases of apparent vowel length distinction can be found.

Japanese is another language in which vowel length is distinctive.

Speakers who do not have raising cannot distinguish between these two words based on vowel length alone.

As described above, vowel length was dependent on syllable structure.

Vowel length can be marked with a macron; however, this is not always done.

Vowel length has no effect and is thus unmarked.

There are, however, multiple ways of representing or ignoring vowel length in written text.

It uses diacritics to mark unpredictable vowel length or quality.

Later, it developed into the acute accent, which is still used in some languages to mark vowel length.

Its main drawbacks are that it does not indicate tone or vowel length.

Stress, vowel length and tone are linked together in Mohawk.

The diacritic mark used to indicate vowel length is often referred to as a "point".

The language may have had a distinction of vowel length, but this is difficult to determine from the extant data.

There is no need to represent vowel length in lexical representations.

In Australian English they are distinguished only by vowel length.

Vowel length is nonphonemic, and changes according to the vowel's place within the word.

Vowel length is indicated with a raised dot ( ).

The vowel length is not usually denoted, doubled letters are used rarely.

There is some variation in the interpretations of vowel length's phonemicity.