- 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...
-
pronounced identically.
Unstressed syllables in
English may
contain almost any vowel, but in
practice vowels in
stressed and
unstressed syllables tend to use...
- stress: they
occur practically exclusively in
unstressed syllables, and conversely, most (though not all)
unstressed syllables contain one of
these sounds. These...
-
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...
-
between a
stressed and
unstressed syllable Reduced vowels appear in
unstressed syllables,
except for:
Closed initial unstressed syllables,
which are generally...
- 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...
- 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/...
- /aˑ/
occur only due to
unstressed vowel shortening in the next syllable. The
distribution in post-stressed
syllables (
unstressed syllables following a...
-
pitch that all
unstressed syllables rest on. A
stressed syllable is one that is emphasized, or has prominence. In
contrast to an
unstressed syllable, a stressed...
