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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: | ||
* | * 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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