%0 Conference Proceedings %T Etude acoustique d'un contraste dérivé en anglais d'Ecosse %+ Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus (CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967)) %A Ferragne, Emmanuel %A Afonso-Santiago, Joana %A Pellegrino, Francois %< avec comité de lecture %( Actes des Journées d'Etude sur la Parole %B Journées d'Etude sur la Parole %C Mons, Belgium %8 2010-05-25 %D 2010 %K derived contrasts %K Scottish Vowel Length Rule %K Gradient Phonemicity Hypothesis %K vowel length %K diphthongization %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/LinguisticsConference papers %X Phonological length is generally thought not to be relevant in Scottish English. However, some vowels are appreciably longer when followed by the past morpheme /d/ (instead of a tautomorphemic /d/), resulting in so-called `derived contrasts'. Do derived contrasts qualify as full-edged phonemic oppositions or should they be regarded as allophonic variation? In the current paper, which is a preliminary to perceptual experiments addressing this question, we quantify the differences in duration and spectral variation brought about by appending the dental suffix of the past morpheme to /u/, /i/, and /ai/. We show that consistent lengthening occurs for /u/ and /ai/, as well as stronger diphthongization in /ai/, which suggests that duration should perhaps be included in the vowel system of Scottish English. %G English %L hal-01240409 %U https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-01240409 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS7 %~ AO-LINGUISTIQUE %~ CLILLAC-ARP %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SOCIETES-HUMANITES