• § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress...
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  • length, full articulation of the vowel, and changes in tone. The terms stress and accent are often used synonymously in that context but are sometimes distinguished...
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  • pronunciation of this vowel is back [ɑ]. Front [a] or even [æ] is a common realization of /a/ in northern German varieties influenced by Low German. /aː/ has been...
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  • 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...
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  • first vowel to a schwa), others in vowel coloring (qualitative gradation: man / men) and others the complete disappearance of a vowel (reduction to zero:...
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  • Isochrony (redirect from Stress timing)
    the two is only superficial. Stress-timing is strongly related to vowel reduction processes. English, Thai, Lao, German, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian...
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  • the previous syllable (as described under § Syllable reduction, below).: 43  When a stressed vowel-initial Chinese syllable follows a consonant-final syllable...
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  • 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...
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  • to offglides in diphthongs. However, poetic meter may force the reduction of unstressed /i/ and /u/ to semivowels before a stressed vowel: kormilionoj...
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    Proto-Germanic vowels and consonants in the various older languages. For vowels, only the outcomes in stressed syllables are shown. Outcomes in unstressed...
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