Spectrographically derived measurements of the durations of the component sections of 19 different vocalic nuclei in the /h - d/ frame allow an estimation of the roles of linguistic, individual and physiological forces in the division of the nucleus into its on-glide, target, etc. and also a tentative ranking of these forces in the order given. Some observations on nucleus duration are included.
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