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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Florian,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jóola Banjal (Atlantic) has contrasting length in consonants, but not in vowels, and is consequently a counterexample to the implicational tendency you have observed (Bassène, Alain Christian. </span>2007. <i>Morphosyntaxe du Jóola Banjal</i>. <span lang=EN-US>Köln: Rüdiger Köppe). Interestingly, closely related Jóola varieties (for example, Jóola Fóoñi) have contrasting length in vowels, but not in consonants, and there are correspondences such as Banjal nnɔm / Fooñi nɔɔm ‘buy’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You might also consult the following article (‘Eegimaa’ is just an alternative name for ‘Banjal’): Hantgan-Sonko, A. (2017). <em>A weight-based analysis of Jola Eegimaa lenition</em>. In: Festschrift for Paul Newman’s 80th Birthday: Essays in Honor of Paul Newman. African Linguistics in the 21st Century. Series: Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 55.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Denis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> florian.matter@isw.unibe.ch<br><b>Envoyé :</b> dimanche 20 décembre 2020 17:13<br><b>À :</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><b>Objet :</b> [Lingtyp] Contrastive vowel and consonant length?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id="bloop_customfont"><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>is anybody aware of large-scale studies investigating the distribution of contrastive length in consonants and vowels? Preliminary analysis of phoible data tells me that there is an implicational tendency where if a language has contrastive length in consonants, it also has it in vowels. Are there studies supporting this? I’m also interested in literature on the geographical and genealogical distribution of contrastive length.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Florian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="bloop_customfont"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id="bloop_sign_1608480507300430080"><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>_____________________________</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Universität Bern</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Institut für Sprachwissenschaft</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Florian Matter </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 12px'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Länggassstrasse 49</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>CH-3012 Bern</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Tel. +41 31 631 37 54</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>Raum B 168</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#0433FF'><a href="mailto:florian.matter@isw.unibe.ch"><span style='color:#006AE3'>florian.matter@isw.unibe.ch</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#0433FF'><a href="http://www.isw.unibe.ch/"><span style='color:#006AE3'>http://www.isw.unibe.ch</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>