- may
occur when a
vowel changes from a
stressed to an
unstressed position. In English,
unstressed vowels may
reduce to schwa-like vowels,
though the details...
- Hebrew. In phonology,
syncope is the
process of
deleting unstressed sounds,
particularly unstressed vowels such as schwa. The term
schwa was
introduced by...
- stress: they
occur practically exclusively in
unstressed syllables; and conversely, most (though not all)
unstressed syllables contain one of
these sounds. These...
- uses
vowel height to
contrast stressed syllables with
unstressed syllables: In Portugal,
unstressed /a e o/ tend to be
raised to /ɐ ɨ u/,
whereas /ɛ ɔ/...
-
between a
stressed and
unstressed syllable Reduced vowels appear in
unstressed syllables,
except for:
Closed initial unstressed syllables,
which are generally...
-
pronounced identically.
Unstressed syllables in
English may
contain almost any vowel, but in
practice vowels in
stressed and
unstressed syllables tend to use...
- for
secondary stress, so that e.g. ⟨ˌɪ⟩ is a full
unstressed vowel while ⟨ɪ⟩ is a reduced,
unstressed schwi. Or the
vowel quality may be portra**** as distinct...
- most
unstressed positions, in fact, only
three phonemes are
distinguished after hard consonants, and only two
after soft consonants.
Unstressed /o/ and...
-
lengthened in some contexts.
There are five
general unstressed vowels /a, e, i, o, u/.
Although unstressed vowels are more
stable than in
Eastern Catalan dialects...
- In Catalan,
final unstressed /as/ > /es/. In many dialects,
unstressed /o/ and /u/
merge into /u/ as in Portuguese, and
unstressed /a/ and /e/
merge into...