Re: [tied] Vowel Lengthening from V + Voiced Consonant

On 2006-09-17 15:42, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> In Scots, both tense and lax vowels are
> phonetically short except in root-final positions

... I mean morpheme-finally before an "open" juncture, so that <greed#>
doesn't rhyme with <agree#d>.

> and before /r/ or one
> of the voiced fricatives /v, ð, z/, where tense vowels get lengthened
> (Aitken's Law)

Aitken's Law also affects the diphthong /ai/, which is realised as [a:e]
in the lengthening contexts (e.g. in <tie#d>), and [&i] elsewhere (as in
<tide>).

Piotr