This is the research compendium of a study on intrinsic vowel duration in Northwestern Italian. Intrinsic vowel duration is the phenomenon by which lower vowels tend to be longer than higher vowels.
The repository contains an R/Quarto RStudio project, with R dependencies managed with renv. You can download the repository and open the RStudio project on your computer by double clicking on vow-height.Rproj. RStudio should prompt you to install the necessary R packages.
The file code/01_analysis.qmd includes code of the analysis of the paper Intrinsic vowel duration in Northwestern Italian: Bio-mechanical or more? by Stefano Coretta, plus extra plots and analyses. The file has been rendered to HTML and can be viewed at https://stefanocoretta.github.io/vow-height/code/01_analysis.html.
The data used in code/01_analysis.qmd are available through the R package https://github.com/stefanocoretta/coretta2018itaegg.