{"id":212,"date":"2017-06-26T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/toivonen\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:45:16","slug":"phonological-quantity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/toivonen\/phonological-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonological quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Phonetic characteristics such as duration, pitch and loudness are cues to  phonological quantity. I am interested in how speakers process these messy and gradient phonetic cues  as tidy phonological representations. In particular, I have looked at the relationship between vowel height and duration.  I have also tried to understand what the differences are between quantity systems in different languages.  I have spent lots of time trying to understand the ternary consonant duration distinction in Inari Saami. I&#8217;ve also struggled with the complementary quantity system of Swedish.   Again, I have collaborated with various people on these topics; for example, Patrik Bye, Elin Sagulin, Roxana-Maria Barbu and Adam Stone.   <\/p>\n<p>2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/7cb1d3jb\"> Both intrinsic and allophonic vowel duration matter in textsetting. <\/a> With  Nicole Gilroy, and Lev Blumenfeld. <em> Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<\/em>  46.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Abstract\/500187\"> Detecting foreign accents in song. <\/a> With  Marly Mageau, Can Mekik, and Ashley Sokalski. <em> Phonetica<\/em> 76 (6): 429&#8211;447.  Pre-final  version available <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/MageauMekikSokalskiToivonen.pdf\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2019. <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1367006917709093\">The phonetics of code-switched vowels.<\/a> With Kasia Muldner, Leah Hoiting, Leyna Sanger and Lev Blumenfeld. <em>International Journal of Bilingualism <\/em> 23(1): 37-52.<\/p>\n<p>2015. The production and perception of  intrinsic vowel duration.  With  Adam Stone.  Talk given at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford. <br \/>\n  <A HREF=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/EdinburghSound.pdf\">pdf<\/A><\/p>\n<p>2015. Language mixing and the phonetics of vowels.  With  Marilou Guillemette, Leah Hoiting, Eric Iacono, and Kasia Muldner.  Talk given at  <i> CUNY Phonology Forum <\/i> <\/p>\n<p>2014. Vowel height and duration.  With  Lev Blumenfeld, Andrea Gormley, Leah Hoiting, John Logan, Nalini Ramlakhan<br \/>\nand Adam Stone. <em>Proceedings of WCCFL 32.<\/em>  <br \/>\n  <A HREF=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/toivonenetal_wccfl32.pdf\">pdf<\/A><\/p>\n<p> 2012.  Systems of Phonological Quantity.  Talk given at the   s<I> International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Freiburg. <\/I>  <br \/>  <A HREF=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/icngl-quantity2.pdf\">pdf<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>2009. Phonetic duration, phonological quantity and prosodic structure in Inari Saami.  With Patrik Bye and Elin Sagulin. <em>Phonetica<\/em> 66(4): 199&#8211;121.<br \/>\n  <A HREF=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/bye-sagulin-toivonen.pdf\">pdf<\/A><\/p>\n<p>2007. <em>Saami Linguistics<\/em>. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 288. Amsterdam &amp; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Diane Nelson.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjamins.com\/cgi-bin\/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nStudent work:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Adam Stone   explored vowel  height and duration in his Master&#8217;s thesis <a href=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/AdamStone.pdf\"><i>The production and perception of vowel height and duration <\/i><\/a>   (2015). He conducted a psycholinguistic experiment on the perception of vowel duration.  His results suggest that high vowels are perceived as being shorter even when they are not.\n<\/p>\n<p>Marly Mageau&#8217;s  Master&#8217;s thesis <a href=\"\/toivonen\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarlyMageau.pdf\"><i>Foreign accents in song and speech <\/i><\/a>   (2016)  also focusses on the phonetics of vowels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phonetic characteristics such as duration, pitch and loudness are cues to phonological quantity. 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