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| Alcvean Skellan uses the Scottish vowel length rule: | | Alcvean Skellan uses the Scottish vowel length rule: |
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| * {{IPA|/ə/}}, {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, {{IPA|/ɛ/}}, {{IPA|/ɑ, a/}}, {{IPA|/ɔ/}} and {{IPA|/ʌ/}} (15, 16, 17, 18 and 19) are usually short. | | * /ə/, /ɛ/, /œ/, /a/, /ɔ/ are usually short. |
| ** In some Modern Scots varieties vowel 17 ({{IPA|/ɑ/}}) may merge with vowel 12 ({{IPA|/ɑː/}}) in long environments.<ref name="Aitken A.J. 1981 p.150"/> In [[Ulster Scots dialects|Ulster Scots]] {{IPA|/ɛ/}}, {{IPA|/ɑ/}} and {{IPA|/ɔ/}} (16, 17 and 18) are usually always long and the {{IPA|[əʉ]}} realisation of vowel 13 is short before a [[voiceless consonant]] or before a [[sonorant]] followed by a voiceless consonant but long elsewhere.<ref>Harris J. (1984) English in the north of Ireland in Trudgill P., Language in the British Isles, Cambridge p.120</ref> | | * /i/, /y/, /e/, /o/, /u/, /ø/ are usually long in the following environments and short elsewhere: |
| * {{IPA|/i/}}, {{IPA|/e/}}, {{IPA|/o/}}, {{IPA|/u/}}, {{IPA|/ø/}} {{IPA|/ju/}} are usually long in the following environments and short elsewhere:
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| ** In stressed syllables before [[voiced fricative]]s, namely {{IPA|/v, ð, z, ʒ/}}, and also before {{IPA|/r/}}. | | ** In stressed syllables before [[voiced fricative]]s, namely {{IPA|/v, ð, z, ʒ/}}, and also before {{IPA|/r/}}. |
| ** Before another vowel. | | ** Before another vowel. |
| ** Before a morpheme boundary. | | ** Before a morpheme boundary.. |
| * The long {{IPA|/ɑː/}}, {{IPA|/ɒː/}} or {{IPA|/ɔː/}} realisations of vowel 12 usually occur in all environments in final stressed [[syllable]]s.<ref name="Aitken A.J. 1981 p.150"/>
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| * {{IPA|/iː/}} and {{IPA|/eː/}} (11 and 8) are usually long.
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| ===Hnawcas Amlad=== | | ===Hnawcas Amlad=== |