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Acoustic Correlates of Phonological Vowel Length

One of the main phonetic differences between JC and other English dialects is that length is more clearly realized as such in Jamaican than elsewhere. This section will document the phonetic implementation of phonological vowel length in JC.



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Thomas Veatch 2005-01-25