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vowel reductions

vowel reductions is the plural of vowel reduction.

Meaning of vowel reduction

Noun

vowel reduction (countable and uncountable, plural vowel reductions)

  1. 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".

Questions about vowel reductions

What is vowel reductions the plural of?
Vowel reductions is the plural of vowel reduction.

Words near vowel reductions in the dictionary

  1. vowel pointing
  2. vowel points
  3. vowel quantities
  4. vowel quantity
  5. vowel reduction
  6. vowel reductions
  7. vowel rhyme
  8. vowel rhymes
  9. vowel sign
  10. vowel signs
  11. voweled

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