[Lingtyp] Contrastive vowel and consonant length?

[Hurch, Bernhard (bernhard.hurch@uni-graz.at)]

Dear Florian,

in a line with Pier Marco's remark: hasen't there been quite some agreement in the last 2-3 decades to analyze quantity as a prosodic, rather than as a segmental feature?

Bernhard


Am 20.12.2020 um 17:13 schrieb florian.matter at isw.unibe.ch<mailto:florian.matter at isw.unibe.ch>:

Dear all,

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.

Best,
Florian


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