Assertion: vowel | /r/HasProperty | shortened
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Source sentences:
text: Thus the vowel in bad /bæd/ is of normal length but the vowel in bat /bæt/ is shortened.
text: Thus the vowel in bad /bæd/ is of normal length but the vowel in bat /bæt/ is shortened.
text: Vowels are shortened when followed in a syllable by a voiceless (fortis) consonant.
text: Vowels may be phonologically long or short (i.e. belong to the long or the short group of vowel phonemes) but their length is influenced by their context: in particular, they are shortened if a voiceless (fortis) consonant follows in the syllable, so that, for example, the vowel in 'bat' [bæʔt] is shorter than the vowel in 'bad'