- 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...
- stress: they
occur practically exclusively in
unstressed syllables, and conversely, most (though not all)
unstressed syllables contain one of
these sounds. These...
-
pronounced identically.
Unstressed syllables in
English may
contain almost any vowel, but in
practice vowels in
stressed and
unstressed syllables tend to use...
-
between a
stressed and
unstressed syllable Reduced vowels appear in
unstressed syllables,
except for:
Closed initial unstressed syllables,
which are generally...
-
general unstressed vowels /a, e, i, o, u/ (rare
instances of /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ are
found through compounding and
vowel harmony).
Although unstressed vowels are...
- most
unstressed positions, in fact, only
three phonemes are
distinguished after hard consonants, and only two
after soft consonants.
Unstressed /o/ and...
- and "short"
becomes "
unstressed" ("unaccented"). For example, an iamb,
which is short-long in
classical meter,
becomes unstressed-stressed, as in the English...
- ċyrð.
Before unstressed vowels, ⟨c g sc⟩ can be
palatal or
velar depending on etymology.
Velar [k ɣ sk] can be
found before unstressed back
vowels in...
-
scansion does. In the
second line, "and" is both
unstressed and ictic, but the
scansion marks it only as
unstressed.
Although now a
better representation of the...
- they are
unstressed. The
vowels /a/ and /o/ have the same
unstressed allophones for a
number of
dialects and
reduce to a schwa.
Unstressed /e/ may become...
