English Explanatory Dictionary

reduced vowel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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

Word forms

reduced vowel reduced vowels

Related words

vowel reduction
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