sentence (prosodic stress). Absence of stress on a syllable, or on a word in some cases, is frequently associated in English with vowel reduction – many such...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress...

languages. (For further detail see Stress and vowel reduction in English.) Prosodic stress, or sentence stress, refers to stress patterns that apply at a higher...

purely of vowel quality and not of stress, and thus argue that vowel reduction itself is phonemic in English. Examples of words where vowel reduction seems...

resemblance between the two is only superficial. Stress-timing is strongly related to vowel reduction processes. English, Thai, Lao, German, Russian, Danish, Swedish...

Regional accents of English IPA chart for English dialects Stress and vowel reduction in English Initial-stress-derived noun Traditional English pronunciation...

than in leadership. (See Stress and vowel reduction in English.) /i, u, eɪ, oʊ, ɑ, ɔ/ are considered to compose a natural class of tense pure vowels (monophthongs)...

Suprafix List of English homographs Stress and vowel reduction in English Lahiri, Aditi; Thomas Riad; Haike Jacobs (1999). "Diachronic prosody". In Harry van...

secondary stress vs unstressed. See Stress and vowel reduction in English for details. In Norwegian, the pitch accent is lost from one of the roots in a compound...

see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In the pronunciation of the Russian language, several ways of vowel reduction (and its absence) are distinguished...

the Old English period, and with who, whom and whose in Middle English (the latter words having had an unrounded vowel in Old English). Reduction to /w/...

"reduce in size") when used as a verb. Here stress is connected to vowel reduction: in the noun "contract" the first syllable is stressed and has the...

the placement of stress, and therefore the pronunciation of the vowels in English. Note that the following rules are generalizations, and that many names...

They are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. The word vowel comes from the Latin word...

considered long, in addition to an eleventh vowel /æː/ which is found in English loanwords. The distinction between short and long vowels is often described...

Pacific Northwest English. NURSE: The NURSE vowel /ɜː/ is a mid central vowel, [ə] or [əː]. STRUT and PALM: Usually, the vowels in luck and lark overlap are...

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. This article describes those aspects of the phonological history of English which concern consonants. Reduction of /hw/...

⟨ph⟩ and ⟨v⟩ are pronounced as they are in English, they are not included in the table. Vowel length is not phonemic. As a result, the automatic stress accent...

shape -/z/, having developed in Middle English from -[əs] to -[əz] and then, after the deletion of the unstressed vowel, to -/z/ (e.g. halls, tells with...

the previous syllable (as described under § Syllable reduction, below).: 43  When a stressed vowel-initial Chinese syllable follows a consonant-final syllable...

in the proper sense, is the acute accent ⟨◌́⟩ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek...

in modern pronunciations but may have been velarized in the eighth century and glottalized in Proto-Semitic. Reduction of /j/ and /w/ between vowels occurs...

moras (that is, three or fewer vowels, with diphthongs and long vowels counting as two vowels). In such cases, stress is always on the second to last...

intonation, stress, and rhythm. Spanish and Portuguese speakers might add an /h/ before the vowel /ɪ/, as in "his" for "is". Therefore, vowel sounds are...

However, stressed and unstressed vowels already show different distributions in the vowel space. Once word production begins, stressed vowels expand in the...

more heavily stressed) /ð/ tends to be [d], so this is [dis], /ə/ tends to be [a], so whether is [ˈwɛda]. There is less vowel reduction in unstressed syllables...

word, the stress goes on the first encountered syllable of any of these types: A heavy syllable: that is, a syllable ending in either a long vowel (CVː),...

number of vowel shifts, and the palatalisation of velar consonants in many positions. For historical developments prior to the Old English period, see...

AmE and BrE is in stress. Usually, it also follows a reduction of the unstressed vowel. Words marked with subscript A or B are exceptions to this, and thus...