Co-intrinsic characteristics

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In phonetics, co-intrinsic characteristics of sounds are caused by the influence of neighbouring sounds.

Subtypes

Co-intrinsic pitch: the pitch of a vowel is higher when the vowel follows a voiceless consonant than when it follows a voiced consonant.

Co-intrinsic duration: the duration of a vowel preceding a voiceless consonant is shorter than when the same vowel precedes a voiced consonant.


Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

See also

intrinsic characteristics