Lack of Syllable Duration as a Post-Lexical Acoustic Cue in Spanish in Contact with Maya
This paper focuses on the duration of stressed syllables in broad versus contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish and examines its connection with Spanish−Maya bilingualism. We examine the claim that phonemic vowel length in one language prevents the use of syllable duration as a post-lexica...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/4/84 |