Abstract
In a previous study, it was found that vowel durations could be predicted for monosyllabic words in three-word phrases as a function of the vowel, following consonant, prepausal position, and syntactic function. The present study extends these results to multisyllabic words. For closed and open syllables, it is shown that the effect of syllable position does not affect the vowel duration, but that the greater the number of syllables, the shorter the vowel. A technique is described wherby each syntactic role can be assigned an equivalent number of syllables, so that the effect of syntactic function and number of syllables can be described by the same parameter. Models are devised for stressed vowels, /∂/, and other unstressed vowels.
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