sentence (prosodic stress). Absence of stress on a syllable, or on a word in some cases, is frequently associated in English with vowel reduction – many such...

of English and Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages). Vowel reduction of second language speakers is a separate study. Stress-related vowel reduction...

secondary stress vs unstressed. See Stress and vowel reduction in English for details. In Norwegian, the pitch accent is lost from one of the roots in a compound...

languages. (For further detail see Stress and vowel reduction in English.) Prosodic stress, or sentence stress, refers to stress patterns that apply at a higher...

purely of vowel quality and not of stress, and thus argue that vowel reduction itself is phonemic in English. Examples of words where vowel reduction seems...

Suprafix List of English homographs Stress and vowel reduction in English Lahiri, Aditi; Thomas Riad; Haike Jacobs (1999). "Diachronic prosody". In Harry van...

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

resemblance between the two is only superficial. Stress-timing is strongly related to vowel reduction processes. English, Thai, Lao, German, Russian, Danish, Swedish...

in leadership. (See Stress and vowel reduction in English.) /i, u, eɪ, oʊ, ɑ, ɔ/ are considered to compose a natural class of tense monophthongs in General...

Regional accents of English IPA chart for English dialects Stress and vowel reduction in English Initial-stress-derived noun Traditional English pronunciation...

intonation and stress. The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal" (i.e. relating to the voice). In English, the word vowel is commonly...

more heavily stressed) /ð/ tends to be [d], so this is [dis], /ə/ tends to be [a], so whether is [ˈwɛda]. There is less vowel reduction in unstressed syllables...

AmE and BrE is in stress. Usually, it also follows a reduction of the unstressed vowel. Words marked with subscript A or B are exceptions to this, and thus...

the Old English period, and with who, whom and whose in Middle English (the latter words having had an unrounded vowel in Old English). Reduction to /w/...

However, stressed and unstressed vowels already show different distributions in the vowel space. Once word production begins, stressed vowels expand in the...

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically...

"reduce in size") when used as a verb. Here stress is connected to vowel reduction: in the noun "contract" the first syllable is stressed and has the...

as wine). Reduction of /hl/, /hr/ and /hn/, with the loss of the initial /h/ in Middle English. Reduction of /hj/ to /j/ in a few American and Irish dialects...

of modern English word-stress patterns (man / woman, photograph / photography). Confusingly, in some contexts, the terms 'ablaut', 'vowel gradation'...

vowel chain shift has resulted in younger generations having lower positions than this for the former three vowels. The vowels of Australian English can...

the previous syllable (as described under § Syllable reduction, below).: 43  When a stressed vowel-initial Chinese syllable follows a consonant-final syllable...

separate vowels in hiatus, as is the case with linking and intrusive R in English. drawing → draw-r-ing A consonant may be placed between consonants in a consonant...

the placement of stress, and therefore the pronunciation of the vowels in English. Note that the following rules are generalizations, and that many names...

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...

Lakes or the California Shift in the American West. Reduction of unstressed vowels is less common in Chicano English than in Anglo varieties. While a lack...

ph, and v are pronounced as they are in English, they are not included in the table. Vowel length is not phonemic. As a result, the automatic stress accent...

to offglides in diphthongs. However, poetic meter may force the reduction of unstressed /i/ and /u/ to semivowels before a stressed vowel: kormilionoj...

shape -/z/, having developed in Middle English from -[əs] to -[əz] and then, after the deletion of the unstressed vowel, to -/z/ (e.g. halls, tells with...

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

most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops...