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...

full and reduced vowels in transcription. Some English dictionaries mark full vowels for secondary stress, so that e.g. ⟨ˌɪ⟩ is a full unstressed vowel while...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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/...

of modern English word-stress patterns (man / woman, photograph / photography). Confusingly, in some contexts, the terms 'ablaut', 'vowel gradation'...

intonation and stress. The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal" (i.e. relating to the voice). In English, the word vowel is commonly...

"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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

as wine). Reduction of /hl/, /hr/ and /hn/, with the loss of the initial /h/ in Middle English. Reduction of /hj/ to /j/ in a few American and Irish dialects...

vowel chain shift has resulted in younger generations having lower positions than this for the former three vowels. The vowels of Australian English can...

shift, Stage 3 is most common in heavily stressed syllables and particularly among Inland Southern speakers. Southern vowel breaking ("Southern drawl"):...

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...

separate vowels in hiatus, as is the case with linking and intrusive R in English. drawing → draw-r-ing A consonant may be placed between consonants in a consonant...

observed that the vowel /ɒ/ had shifted upwards, approaching [ɔ] in quality. The vowels /ʊ/ and /uː/ have undergone fronting and reduction in the amount of...

to offglides in diphthongs. However, poetic meter may force the reduction of unstressed /i/ and /u/ to semivowels before a stressed vowel: kormilionoj...

ʐ/) and soft ones (/tɕ ɕː/ and marginally or dialectically /ʑː/). Russian has vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. This feature also occurs in a minority...

most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops...