Vowel length Lepdjom illustration of vowel length

Vowel length in Hausa

Vowel length in Luganda.

Luganda, a language of Uganda, is like other Bantu languages in exhibiting a contrast between short

Against vowel length in Tigrinya

The premise of this paper is that vowel length plays no role in the synchronic phonology of Tigrinya

Ternary vowel length in Shilluk

Ternary or three-level vowel length is typologically rare, and supporting evidence is limited. This

Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda

Metrically conditioned vowel length in Dagaare

There is little evidence for stress in Dagaare, but vowel length alternations in nominal and verbal morphology reveal the presence of a word-initial metrical foot. New evidence for the foot hypothesis comes from action nominals formed with the suffix /-UU/: if the