Utterance-final lengthening and quantity in Northern Finnish

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-45

  Nakai, Satsuki ^a   Kunnari, Sari ^b   Turk, Alice ^a   Suomi, Kari ^b   Ylitalo, Riikka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Duration; Final lengthening; Finnish; Quantity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649101803     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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