Conditions under which this feature is altered in Balto-Slavic languages are postulated by Winter's Law.
Conditions under which this feature is altered in Balto-Slavic languages are postulated by Winter's Law. In Punjabi, this linguistic element can be altered with an Ã¡ddak. Dinka and Wichita are among the very few languages that have three phonemic levels of this feature. Explaining how the phonemic significance of this feature in Proto-Germanic could have arisen from Proto-Indo-European is the attempted goal of Kluge's Law. In Japanese, the words for "uncle" and "grandfather" are minimal pairs differing only in this feature. Gemination is a process affecting this aspect of consonants. In IPA, the modification of this element is notated with an hourglass symbol that resembles a colon. In Czech and Hungarian, an acute accent modifies this aspect of a vowel. The basic unit of this element is the chroneme. For 10 points, give this term for the perceived duration of a sound, such as the distinction between long and short vowels.
Conditions under which this feature is altered in Balto-Slavic languages are postulated by Winter's Law.
length [accept more specific forms, such as  vowel length or long consonants; prompt on "duration" before that word is mentioned]