Phonetic Duration, Phonological Quantity and Prosodic Structure in Inari Saami

• Published in: Phonetica
• Main Authors: Bye, Patrik, Sagulin, Elin, Toivonen, Ida
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2010
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Acoustics and Ultrasonics; Language and Linguistics; Inari; Northern Finland; saami
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000298583; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1159/000298583/xml; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1159/000298583/pdf

Abstract Inari Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language of Northern Finland, is reported to have a three-way surface contrast in consonant length (short, halflong and long). We studied disyllabic words (C)V1CxV2(C) using data from 5 native speakers under two conditions, with short and long precedin...