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Peer reviewedKarins, A. Krisjanis – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Investigates variable deletion of short vowels in word-final unstressed syllables in Latvian spoken in Riga. Affected vowels were almost always inflectional endings and results indicated that internal phonological and prosodic factors (especially distance from main word stress) were the strongest constraints on vowel deletion, along with the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Phonology
