Vowel reduction
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Vowel reduction
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In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word, and which are perceived as "weakening". It most often makes the vowels shorter as well. Vowels which have undergone vowel reduction may be called reduced or weak. In contrast, an unreduced vowel may be described as full or strong. The prototypical reduced vowel in English is schwa. In Australian English, t
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In phonology, changes in the acoustic quality of sounds which are perceived as "weakening".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_reduction
date created:
2005-04-16T15:47:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T21:58:47Z
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