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Vowel reduction is the term in phonetics that refers to various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels , which are related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word (e.g. for Creek language), and which are perceived as "weakening". It most often makes the vowels shorter as well. In phonology, vowel reduction refers to a reduction of the number of distinct vowels, rather than their quality, either over time or when comparing related dialects. In some cases these two concepts may be related. For example, when vowels are phonetically reduced in English, there is also a reduction in the number of vowel contrasts. In other cases, however, phonemic reduction is due to historical vowel mergers (such as the merger of the a vowels in Mary, merry, marry in much of the United States) and has nothing to do with "weakening". From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  ralphriver.blogspot.com EMC Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:01:00 GM On the other hand, [nahar] was bisyllabic from the beginning, and only underwent the . vowel reduction. yielding [nhar] for the absolute, while the base form for suffixes also underwent . vowel reduction. , yielding [nahr-] out of [nahar]. ...  l2accent.com accent reduction Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:39:18 GM W insertions-If you have a . vowel. sound such as o (toe), u (too), au (towel) + L then aw must be inserted. For example: Coal -kowel, cool- kuwel, towel-tauwel. It is cool to attend that school. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter if ...  blogcritics.org Susan Ryan Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:08:40 GM The first section describes the sound system of English and includes chapters on spelling, vowel and consonant sounds, word stress, . vowel reduction. , sentence rhythm and intonation. Common problems such as the pronunciation of ... From Google Blog Search: "Vowel reduction"  fon.hum.uva.nl 402px x 461px | 3.90kB [source page] read speech could be larger or smaller than that for spontaneous speech depending on stress All in all consonant reduction seems to have no systematic effects on the F2 Locus Equations Figure 4 Y intercept frequency versus slope of the F2 Locus Equations Data for read and spontaneous speech squares and circles and stressed and unstressed vowels filled and open symbols  learnenglishinboston.com 754px x 1263px | 54.50kB [source page] Pronunciation We address all elements of accent reduction including stress patterns intonation vowel and consonant production  fon.hum.uva.nl 278px x 331px | 3.80kB [source page] of change i e reduction or not in either of these acoustic factors not even doubles the odds for correctly predicting the direction of change in identification i e better or worse Figure 4 Mean formant distance of the tautosyllabic vowel of the consonant stimuli to the center of reduction 250 1300 Hz in semitones split on speaking style read and spontaneous and From Yahoo Image Search: "Vowel reduction" |
