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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Mingrelian has five primary vowels a, e, i, o, u. The Zugdidi-Samurzaqano dialect has a sixth, ə, which is the result of reduction of i and u. The consonant...

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

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

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...

While vowel reduction is a common sound change, Finnic is known to have adstrate influence from language groups that would not have known reduced vowels (namely...

a set of 7 to 8 phonemic vowels, vowel assimilations (including vowel harmony), many phonetic diphthongs, and vowel reduction, whose precise details differ...

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...

feminine /a/ and epenthetic vowel /e/ merging into /ə/, which was often subsequently dropped. Early heavy reduction of unstressed vowels in the interior of a...

following vowel reduction, /af.ˈfi.ki.oː/ and /af.ˈfek.tus/ in Classical Latin. In the earliest Latin writings, the original unreduced vowels are still...

 200–245. ISBN 0803242352. Johnson, Keith; Martin, Jack (2001). "Acoustic Vowel Reduction in Creek: Effects of Distinctive Length and Position in the Word" (PDF)...

an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms...

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

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/ > [ə];...

acoustically weakening the unstressed vowels. In Soikkola, vowel reduction is restricted to the vowels a and ä; These vowels are sometimes reduced to [ə], but...

transcription delimiters. A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal...

is the orthographic representation of the encliticization and the vowel reduction of one grammatical form with another. The difference between them is...