reduction of vowels

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• Reduction — Reduction, reduced, or reduce may refer to:cienceChemistry*Reduction – chemical reaction in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state) changed. **Reduced gas – a gas with a low oxidation number **Ore reduction: see… …   Wikipedia

• Vowel reduction — is the term in phonetics that refers to various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels, which are related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word (e.g. for Creek language [… …   Wikipedia

• Vowel reduction in Russian — Main article: Russian phonology Vowel reduction in Russian differs in the standard language and in dialects. Several ways of reduction (and its absence) are distinguished. There are five vowel phonemes in Standard Russian. Vowels tend to merge… …   Wikipedia

• Vowel reduction in English — In English, vowel reduction is the centralization and weakening of an unstressed vowel, such as the characteristic change of many vowels at the ends of words to schwa. Stressed vowels cannot be reduced. Reduced vowelsSchwa is the most common… …   Wikipedia

• Cluster reduction — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …   Wikipedia

• Brazilian Portuguese — (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants[1] of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States,… …   Wikipedia

• Neo-Mandaic — Mandāyí, Raṭnā Pronunciation [mændɔːˈji], [rætˤnɔ] Spoken in Iran, Iraq (extinct) Native speakers ca. 500 …   Wikipedia

• Bulgarian dialects — ( bg. български диалекти, balgarski dialekti , also български говори, balgarski govori or български наречия, balgarski narechiya ) are the regional spoken varieties of the Bulgarian language, a South Slavic language. Bulgarian dialectology dates… …   Wikipedia

• whachamacallit — /hwuch euh meuh kawl it, hwoch , wuch , woch /, n. Informal. an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall. Also, whatchamacallit, what you may call it, what do you call it. [1940 45; sp. of what you may call it reflecting… …   Universalium

• Latvian language — or Lettish language East Baltic language spoken by some two million people in the Republic of Latvia and in diaspora communities, including about 85,000 speakers in North America. Like Lithuanian, it is sparsely attested until the first printed… …   Universalium

• whachamacallit — /hwuch euh meuh kawl it, hwoch , wuch , woch /, n. Informal. an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall. Also, whatchamacallit, what you may call it, what do you call it. [1940 45; sp. of what you may call it reflecting… …   Useful english dictionary