Vowel lengthening - WordReference Forums
May 1, 2011. #1. Hello! It is said that native speakers usually lengthen the vowel before voiced consonants. I have a couple of questions pertaining to this phenomenon. 1) Does the vowel lengthening also occur if there's an intermediate 'r' or 'n' …
vowel lengthening - WordReference Forums
Aug 4, 2007 — Bowen contends a compensatory lengthening of the final vowel takes place when the glottal stop is dropped: > [hIn'di:]. I don't hear such lengthening. For me the syllable only becomes open, as you say. Of course his rule is for all words whose last syllable is …
Is vowel length phonemic in English? | WordReference Forums
Apr 12, 2018 — Prosodically lengthening long vowels even more is OK in languages with phonemic vowel length. The important thing is not to shorten long vowels and not to lengthen short vowel. I cannot recall a single time hearing an RP speaker lengthening the vowel in some or much while I often hear that from American speakers.
Vowel mergers in standard (Parisian) French - WordReference …
Apr 28, 2014 — Compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel when a consonant is elided is indeed a regularly occurring phenomenon in many languages (e.g. the muting of gh in light caused the lengthening of i) but it cannot be assumed to have happened with absolute certainty or the lengthening may later have been reversed, e.g. when the final [t] became mute ...
Lengthening of vowels before /r/ in rhotic accents
Jan 24, 2015. #1. Traditionally, dictionaries and teaching materials are quite conservative about the pronunciation of vowels before /r/. In some cases, pronunciation guides can be rather confusing - whether it is a diphthong, a triphthong or a single vowel. But the point to be discussed here is if the vowel sound in "b ee r" is closer to b ea ...
win and wine - WordReference Forums
Dec 18, 2014 — In Middle English, there was a rule that a vowel in a syllable not ending in a consonant was lengthened. So a word spelled with a vowel, a single consonant letter, and a final -e would always have a long vowel. Later on, the schwa sound at the end of words became lost, but the vowel in the previous syllable stayed long.
Egyptian Arabic: lengthening of the final vowel
Apr 2, 2010 — --> gibtáha (add a helping vowel to avoid a 3-consonant cluster, shift stress) -->gibtaháalak (lengthen the final vowel before adding anything, shift stress) -->magibtahaláksh (heavy syllable at the end, shift stress, non-stressed syllable shortened)
Sanskrit-Hindi-Nepali यक्ष & Romany "yag" - WordReference …
May 26, 2020 — Looking up translations of "demigod" in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Nepali yields यक्ष. The Sanskrit word also gets translated into English as "spirit" and "ghost". In Romany, "spirit" gets translated as "yag", but the associated examples show a different meaning: not "spirit" meaning something like a ghost or angel or god or demon but "spirit ...
Origin of -uo-,-ie- via changes in syllable quality Lat->Ita
Sep 25, 2011 — Alex's idea now was that a similar effect might have played a role in the development of Italian (presumably relatively early when vowel length was still phonemic), viz. that people tried to eliminate these exception my lengthening the vowels in stressed open syllables and diphthongization is a form of lengthening.
All dialects/MSA: pronunciation of رأس | WordReference Forums
Nov 8, 2023 — Exactly, it would be difficult to keep the short vowel and not double the siin (or any second letter in a two-letters word). We just need to keep in mind that the vowel length in some dialects, like Analeeh said is not the same across dialects. So what Egyptians would perceive as a long ا in راس can be considered short by other dialects ...