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1 Vowel Length

2 Vowel Quality and Quantity Quality goose, geese Quantity (length) kusi kuusi

3 Phonemic (significant) length kusi kuusi (Finnish) Allophonic length wade, weight (RP English)

4 mun, munn (Icelandic) wade, weight (RP English) Long vowels and diphthongs are shorted (clipped) by following fortis consonants Long vowels are followed by single consonants or no consonants

5 mun, munn síð sídd hús húss mala, malla söl, sölt

6 wade, weight prize, price save, safe siege, speech house, house use, use lose, loose

7 Unvoiced Longer Stronger..... Variably voiced Shorter Weaker......

8 Long? Short?

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