Reduced vowel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Vowel reduction. (Discuss)

A reduced vowel is a vowel with diminished phonetic qualities as compared with certain counterparts. In most languages reduced vowels may be present only in unstressed syllables, i.e., thay may only be unstressed vowels. The most common example of a reduced vowel is schwa, peresent in many languages. Some other language (e.g., Slovene language[1]) have stressed reduced vowels. The letter Yer is the trace of a reduced vowel that could be both in weak and in strong positions in Old Russian.

Numbers and types of reduced vowels vary among languages. For English language, see Unstressed and reduced vowels in English.

The study of reduced vowels is aggravated by the fact that they are pronounced within the framework of minimized articulation effort and duration, and their formants are more difficult to establish as compared with the non-reduced, "full" counterparts.

  1. ^ COMPARISON BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES ON THE TASK OF ACCENTUATION of Slovene Words
 This linguistics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/e/d/Reduced_vowel.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.