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reduced vowel

noun

Definitions

  1. a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables…

    a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables in a given language; usually one that is intermediate in both height and frontness/backness

    • The schwa is a typical reduced vowel, though it can also be a full vowel in some languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reduced vowel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA