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132: 112: 528: 266:. Neither type of transcription is more correct, as both convey exactly the same information, but transcription systems that use the length mark make it more clear whether a vowel is checked or free. Compare the length of the RP vowel 133: 113: 329:
from Croatia and Serbia pronounce historical unstressed long vowels as short, with some exceptions (such as genitive plural endings). Therefore, the name
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Rhythmic clipping occurs in polysyllabic words. The more syllables a word has, the shorter its vowels are and so the first vowel of
569: 95:, vowels in unstressed syllables are shortened and centralized, which is particularly noticeable with tense vowels; compare the 473: 509: 24: 491: 562: 307: 291: 287: 283: 279: 267: 263: 259: 255: 251: 239: 202: 96: 38: 34: 350: 314: 164: 593: 152: 555: 372: 365: 355: 156: 59: 20: 543: 423: 242:⟩ diacritic is sometimes omitted in IPA transcriptions of English and so words such as 377: 360: 160: 8: 382: 588: 148: 167:) have two types of non-phonemic clipping: pre-fortis clipping and rhythmic clipping. 505: 487: 469: 344: 171: 63: 317:
is used instead of those rules in Scotland and sometimes also in Northern Ireland.
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is very rare in North America, as it relies on a three-way distinction between
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Clipping with vowel reduction also occurs in many unstressed syllables.
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is pronounced more quickly than an unclipped vowel and is often also
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Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian – A Grammar with Sociolinguistic Commentary
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in Canadian English, which is typically longer (like RP
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Because of the variability of vowel length, the ⟨
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Index

phonetic transcriptions
International Phonetic Alphabet
Help:IPA
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters
phonetics
articulation
phonetic segment
vowel
reduced
Dutch


Australian English
General American English
Received Pronunciation
South African English
Standard Canadian English
stressed syllable
fortis consonant
Scottish vowel length rule
Serbo-Croatian
Vowel devoicing
Blackfoot language § Vowel devoicing
Cayuga language § Devoiced vowels
French phonology § Devoicing
Japanese phonology § Devoicing
Apheresis (linguistics)
Clipping (morphology)
Syncope (phonetics)
Vowel reduction

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