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Cualand Ăn Yidiș has a version of the Scots vowel length system: except for stressed /ə iə uə yə/, every stressed vowel is allophonically long when:
Cualand Ăn Yidiș has a version of the Scots vowel length system: except for stressed /ə iə uə yə/, every stressed vowel is allophonically long when:
* In stressed syllables before voiced fricatives, namely /v, ð, z, ʑ/, and also before /r/.  
* Before voiced fricatives, namely /v, ð, z, ʑ, ʁ/, and also before /r/.  
* Before another vowel: so ''ņiăn'' 'things' is [ɲi:ən] while ''gŗien'' 'sun' is [k⁼ⁱʑiən].
* Before another vowel: so ''ņiăn'' 'things' is [ɲi:ən] while ''gŗien'' 'sun' is [k⁼ⁱʑiən].
* Before a morpheme boundary.
* Before a morpheme boundary.
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