Re: [tied] Vowel Lengthening from V + Voiced Stop (was Vowel Lengt

On 2006-10-03 00:06, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> You have already stated that inherently short vowels do not appear
> (in most English dialects) in final position.
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> Can you give an example of a _"word-final"_ inherently short vowel
> that would be of equivalent length to the same vowel + D?

That's the whole problem. In Wiik's data sets, the alternative "final or
+ voiced C" really means "+ voiced C" for inherently short vowels, since
they can't occur in the other context.

Piotr