reduced vowel
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[edit]Noun
[edit]reduced vowel (plural reduced vowels)
- (phonology) 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.
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