摘要:With the data obtained from the analysis of vowel duration in utterances performedby men and women, in controlled contexts, in the framework of the ProsodicMultimedia Atlas of Romanesque Space in Asturias (AMPER-Astur), this articleexamines the behavior of vowel duration in relationship with the accent, theprosodic boundaries and the intonation. This analysis, performed with the dataobtained for Asturian and Spanish spoken in Mieres (Asturias), confirms theimportance of duration in the discrimination of intonation sentences.