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Sergi Torner Castells 
, Laura del Barrio Estévez
This paper presents the results of an experimental analysis of the duration of Spanish consonants. The influence of three different factors-stress, location on the syllable, and pause vicinity- on the duration of consonants in reading text has been studied. Phonetic context and speech rate have also been controlled. The obtained results seem to indicate that the vicinity of a pause and the location of the consonant in the syllable have a systematic effect on all the consonants, while the stress only affects the duration of a reduced set of voiced allophones ([1], [r] and [n]). Some general conclusions about the mean duration of each consonant, and about the relationship between duration and voicing, manner and place of articulation, have also been established.
