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...

associated in English with vowel reduction – many such syllables are pronounced with a centralized vowel (schwa) or with certain other vowels that are described...

vowel reduction (and its absence) are distinguished between the standard language and dialects. Russian orthography most often does not reflect vowel...

term reduction refers to phonemic merger. It is not to be confused with the meaning of the word "reduction" in phonetics, such as vowel reduction, but...

Russian and English, vowel reduction may occur when a vowel changes from a stressed to an unstressed position. In English, unstressed vowels may reduce to schwa-like...

towards that of a native speaker Vowel reduction, any change in vowel quality perceived as "weakening" Vowel reduction in English Relaxed pronunciation...

identical) phonological system. Among other things, most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features...

soft ones (/tɕ ɕː/ and marginally or dialectically /ʑː/). Russian has vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. This feature also occurs in a minority of...

features both vowel harmony and vowel reduction. Uyghur vowels are by default short, but long vowels also exist because of historical vowel assimilation...

hliehhan "to laugh" < Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną) There was steady vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, in a number of stages: In West Germanic times...

(sapožók) "boot") and hence the spelling is purely etymological. See Vowel reduction in Russian for more details. There are exceptions to the rule given...

central Mexico and of the Andean highlands, to reduction (especially devoicing), or loss, of unstressed vowels, mainly when they are in contact with voiceless...

it has become clear that the reduced vowels are in fact short vowels, counterparts to their respective long vowels. Today ⟨â⟩ should simply be replaced...

vowels reduce to single vowels:[clarification needed] ae and ai → ee → e ao, oa and oo → aa → a ou → uu → u In Zugdidi-Samurzaqano dialect the vowels...

its vowels are and so the first vowel of readership is shorter than in reader, which, in turn, is shorter than in read. Clipping with vowel reduction also...

system of vowel reduction in any unstressed syllable unless immediately following a short stressed syllable. In Livonian, all short final vowels except *a...

[pə̆ˈliˑs]. This is typical of vowel reduction. Before the 1989 Kiel Convention, the breve was used for a non-syllabic vowel (that is, part of a diphthong)...

heard in Bohuslän and Värmland. Examples of Götamål features are vowel reduction, vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of /r/ in suffixes, such...

pronounced according to the rules of Russian phonology, including those of vowel reduction and stress. The voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ occurs only in...

in the different degrees of vowel reduction, and the incidence of the pair /ɛ, e/. In Central Catalan, unstressed vowels reduce to three: /a, e, ɛ/ >...

(quantitative gradation: photograph / photography shows reduction of the first vowel to a schwa), others in vowel coloring (qualitative gradation: man / men) and...

when unstressed. This is a general characteristic of vowel reduction. Mid-centralization of vowels can be a speech impediment. An example from Polish is...

subject–object–verb word order. More distinctly, Uyghur processes include vowel reduction and umlauting, especially in northern dialects. In addition to other...

or /e/ are realized as more or less close to [a]. It is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pronounced but...

The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

[ˈkɑnɑˑ] Vowel reduction is furthermore a common feature in both dialects. In the Soikkola dialect, vowel reduction is restricted to the vowels a and ä;...

Siberian dialects Vologda-Kirov group Vladimir-Volga group Lack of vowel reduction: unstressed /ɔ/ does not merge with /a/ (okanye). Unstressed /ɔ/, /a/...

BP. ^ May become an approximant as a form of vowel reduction when unstressed before or after another vowel. Words such as boia and proa are pronounced...

archaic vowels ◌ັຽ and ◌ັມ were replaced with existing vowels ໄ and ຳ as these pairs both represented /aj/ and /am/, respectively. The Lao vowel ໄ◌ຽ was...

tenseness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checked and free vowels Vowel reduction Fortis and lenis Trisyllabic laxing Matthews, Peter Hugoe (2014)...