length
-
An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 3: Stress and Timing
In the previous two parts, I have been talking about consonants and vowels. These are both segmental in nature, which means they can be analysed as distinct segments of speech. In the next two parts, I will be talking about phonetic features that cannot be analysed as discrete segments but…
-
An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 2: Vowels
In the last part of this series, I discussed how to create a consonant inventory. So in this part, I will be covering vowels. One major misconception about vowels is that English has five vowels. Actually, written English has five letters that represent vowels (sometimes ‘y’ can as well), but…
Stephen Escher 