Word-initial consonant lengthening (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Word-initial consonant lengthening

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An example of word-initial lengthening in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawakan language spoken in the Amazon region of Bolivia. The word-initial /n/ (100ms) is significantly longer than the /n/ in the word-medial (50ms) and utterance-initial (50ms) positions.

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© Frederic Blum et al., Nature Human Behaviour (2024)

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