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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 What is vowel reduction (Russian)? Q. Okay, it may not be a real deep language subject people talk about, but I'm not sure. Today, in class, we were learning about number 20 - 100. We had a worksheet telling us things like when is pronounced, it sounds like it is spelled . Is this sort of 'reduction' just done with numbers? Do all words have pronunciation rules that make them sound differently than how they are written? I would like to learn to speak Russian well, and I would hate it if I practiced my whole life speaking incorrectly (or too meticulously) so that Russian people would have a hard time understanding me. >_< Thanks in advance. Asked by Ranger . - Tue Nov 27 16:38:39 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. reduction is common in all languages. basically, people are lazy to pronounce words clearly, and thus they "reduce" the regular sounds. reduction happens in all words, vowel reduction that you're asking about happens in syllables that are not accented. most of the time "o" is reduced to "a", "ye" - "ee" etc. There are different Russian dialects though, and people in the n-e region of russia, will not in fact, reduce vowels that people from around Moscow region would. e.g. the word " " (cow) would be prnounced as "koh-roh-vah" (no reduction) or "kah-roh-va" (reduction on the first syllable, second syllable is not reduced cuz it's stressed) reduction is not limited to vowels though. consonants get affected too, especially in the end of a… [cont.] Answered by Daria - Tue Nov 27 17:02:10 2007 fifth sixth to fith sikth. linguistic question. please help! anyone? Q. is this considered as vowel reduction? assimilation? dissimulation? deletion? metathesis? or epenthesis? thanks so much! Asked by necro-apoptosis - Thu Oct 1 03:50:55 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. It is deletion, since you are deleting a phoneme from each of the words - /siks / --> /sik / and /fif / --> /fi /. Answered by JJ - Thu Oct 1 04:02:46 2009 Accent Reduction help...?
Q. I have a weird accent and i want to get rid of it...i sound like a mixture of an african and a 4 year old who speaks New York slang... I am from New York and i would like to have a new york accent, but mostly i jus want to lose the one i have...with the combination of my dark skin, me being skinny as hell, and this accent, people swear im from Africa...i was born in the US So anyway i need help...it seems that i cant pronounce the R sound after a vowel like -er, -ur, -ir, -ar, and -ur. and i also have trouble with the L sound. Any websites will help or any tips on how to pronounce these sounds will also be appreciated. Getting tips on losing my current accent and obtaining a New york accent is what i really want...plz help <:D Asked by JJ Dawgz - Sun Apr 11 17:08:57 2010 - - 0 Answers - 0 Comments A. This website has some good practical tips But best practice always comes from movies =) The Godfather is a pleasure to watch and I think the accents are right on that. Apparently Tony Soprano has it down, too. Answered by Caesar - Mon Apr 12 04:35:33 2010 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Vowel reduction"  news.google.com Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:43:29 GMT+00:00 The Guardian The press category suffered a 41% fall in entries last year, thanks to a massive reduction in global ad spend on print ads by clients, leading some ... news.google.com Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:42:00 GMT+00:00 The Australian On Nova, broadcasters joked that the former letter turner died from " vowel cancer". At her private funeral on Friday, friends and industry colleagues were ... From Google News Search: "Vowel reduction"  fon.hum.uva.nl 386px x 453px | 4.30kB [source page] a constriction e g abrupt changes in the spectral balance LPC formant tracks were extracted using the Split Levinson algorithm after down sampling to 10 kHz using 5 pole zero pairs Figure 1 Spectral reduction in Dutch vowel space Underlined symbols indicate statistical significant differences in either direction p <= 0 001 two tailed Sign test  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  spinnoff.com 65px x 80px | 5.60kB [source page] Gent Joined 08 Jul 2007 Location North of Pontiac Michigan From Yahoo Image Search: "Vowel reduction"  finance.47776.net admin hu, 01 Jul 2010 08:45:12 GM English has many more . vowels. in Arabic, in fact, has only 8 Arabic and English has 22 . vowels. and diphthong sounds different! Particularly problematic for many Arabic speakers are the short . vowels. , which are rarely used in Arabic, ...  yearlyglot.com yearlyglot Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:30:52 GM [Okay, so this isn't 100% literally true, when you consider palatization and . vowel reduction. , but it's true enough to make learning the Russian phonetics 1000x easier than English.] Yes, there are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. ...  endtorture.net Casey Ryan Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:50:10 GM Accent . Reduction. Strategy 2-Learn How Americans Pronounce . Vowel. Sounds in Stressed Syllables. In spoken English the . vowels. in stressed syllables take on a special quality. These . vowels. are lengthened and pronounced with a high pitch. ... From Google Blog Search: "Vowel reduction" |
