{"id":1418,"date":"2011-08-21T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1418"},"modified":"2011-09-25T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:37:29","slug":"clipping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1418","title":{"rendered":":Clipping:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reduction in vowel (or other <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=568\">sonorant<\/a>) duration due to environmental factors. Two sorts of clipping are usually recognised:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-fortis clipping<\/strong>: a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1422\">fortis <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=527\">voiceless<\/a>) sound following in the same <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=568\">syllable <\/a>causes the preceding vowel to be shorter than it would be in other environments. Thus, for example, in many accents of English the vowel in <em>beat<\/em> is shorter than that in <em>bead<\/em>. In some languages (English is an example) this sort of clipping is an important cue to the voicing status of a following consonant.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"beat_bead.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>The vertical blue lines mark the beginning and end of the vowel segment<br \/>The measurements are approximate.<\/center><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Rhythmic clipping<\/strong>: where the presence of other syllables in the same <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1072\">foot<\/a> causes a vowel to be reduced in duration compared to a vowel where the syllable is not accompanied by other syllables in the foot. An example from English: the vowel in the first syllable of <em>beater<\/em> is shorter than that in <em>beat<\/em>.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"beater_beat.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>The vertical blue lines mark the beginning and end of the vowel segment<br \/>The measurements are approximate.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reduction in vowel (or other sonorant) duration due to environmental factors. Two sorts of clipping are usually recognised: Pre-fortis clipping: a fortis (voiceless) sound following in the same syllable causes the preceding vowel to be shorter than it would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions\/3290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}