§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. In the pronunciation of the Russian language, several ways of vowel reduction (and its absence) are distinguished...

transcription delimiters. In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress, sonority...

a word in some cases, is frequently associated in English with vowel reduction – many such syllables are pronounced with a centralized vowel (schwa)...

marginally or dialectically /ʑː/). Russian has vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. This feature also occurs in a minority of other Slavic languages...

"Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Account of Standard, Dialectal, and 'Dissimilative' Patterns" (PDF), University of Rochester Working Papers in the...

is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pronounced but not represented orthographically in the standard language)...

"Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Account of Standard, Dialectal, and 'Dissimilative' Patterns" (PDF), University of Rochester Working Papers in the...

dialects of the Belarus. Northern Russian dialects Southern Russian dialects Old Novgorod dialect Vowel reduction in Russian Sussex & Cubberley 2006, pp. 521–526...

represents reduced vowels like [ɪ], see Russian phonology and Vowel reduction in Russian. This letter is called E, and represents the vowel phoneme /e/ (phonetically...

Language of the Russian Village" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-11-10. Crosswhite, Katherine Margaret (2000), "Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Account...

occurred in Belarusian as seen in the word for "flax": Belarusian and Russian лён /ˈlʲon/. Modern Russian has extensive reduction of unstressed vowels, with...

contemporary Russian speakers these letters when unstressed are pronounced identically as /ə/. See also vowel reduction in Russian and akanye. In unstressed...

pronunciation of a preceding consonant or a following vowel. Russian alphabet Listen to the Russian alphabet Problems playing this file? See media help...

are reduced to the same sound, usually [ə] (for details, see vowel reduction in Russian). In order to assign such an instance of [ə] to one of the phonemes...

the presence or the absence of vowel reduction (akanye and/or ikanye) and the pronunciation of Proto-Slavic *g, Russian is divided into two main dialectical...

transcription delimiters. A vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract, forming the nucleus of a syllable. Vowels are one of the two...

languages. In non-stressed positions, the vowel reduction depends on the language and the dialect. The standard Russian language reduces the vowel to [ɪ]...

stress. In many languages, such as Russian and English, vowel reduction may occur when a vowel changes from a stressed to an unstressed position. In English...

noticeably different pronunciations for the vowels. Russian is written with a modern variant of the Cyrillic script. Russian spelling typically avoids arbitrary...

primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region features both vowel harmony and vowel reduction. Uyghur vowels are by default short, but long vowels also...

The near-close near-back rounded vowel, or near-high near-back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA symbol that...

discourage vowels in hiatus or consonant clusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to make pronunciation easier. Epenthesis may be represented in writing...

usually shown in writing not by a change of the consonant but rather by changing the following vowel. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed...

Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska...

Russian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Russian language. With suitable extensions, it is used for languages of neighboring countries that are written...

the result of vowel raising. Uyghur has systematic vowel reduction (or vowel raising) as well as vowel harmony. Words usually agree in vowel backness, but...

as [æ] in closed syllables так ('so') and [ɑ] in open syllables два ('two'). Speakers may also have difficulty with the Russian vowel reduction system...

languages, they do not have vowel harmony. The earliest Permic language to be preserved in writing was Old Permic or Old Zyryan, in the 14th century. The extant...

present in the Ingrian language: The vowel /ɨ/ is only present in some Russian loanwords, like rьbakka ("fisher"); this vowel has been replaced by /i/ in some...

near-front unrounded vowel, or near-high near-front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...