vowel reduction (English, noun)
expansion: vowel reduction (countable and uncountable, plural vowel reductions)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels, related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word, and which are perceived as "weakening".
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: vowel reductions
tags: plural