Other things being equal, does vowel height alone determine vowel duration?

A well-known property of vowel duration is that it tends to be modulated by vowel height: higher vowels are usually shorter than lower vowels (Lieberman and Kubaska 1979). A commonly accepted hypothesis regarding the source of this trend is that vowel duration is in fact related to the duration of the gesture needed to produce the vowel (assuming a consonantal starting state where the tongue body is high, Turk et al 1994): it takes less time for the tongue to go from a state of (consonantal) obstruction to the gestural configuration of higher vowels (which is closer to an obstructed configuration) than to go to the gestural configuration of lower vowels (which is further from an obstructed configuration). Diachronically, a coarticulatory effect of (gradient) tongue height on vowel duration could be enhanced so that tongue height alone would not be sufficient to explain vowel duration but, rather, vowel duration would be further modulated depending on the vowel category (Toivonen 2015, Bermúdez-Otero 2010).