期刊名称：Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
电子版ISSN：1868-6354
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：273-297
DOI：10.1515/lp-2012-0015
摘要：This paper addresses the claim that Dutch /l/ triggers laxing of preceding tense
mid vowels ( /e ø o/ ), and that this leads to a phonetic length contrast between
tense and lax vowels, e.g., tense speel [spɪɫ] ‘play’ vs. lax spil [spɪɫ] ‘pivot’. The
production experiment reported in this paper shows that this claim is incorrect. We
find instead that /l/ triggers retraction of both tense and lax mid vowels, which
leads neither to complete neutralization of quality nor to complete neutralization
of length.
