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...

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

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