<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Wouldn’t be often the case that the reason for a vowel to be reduced is that stress has been moved off the syllable<div class="">in question, i.e. stress movement is the trigger for reduction</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian Maddieson<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2020, at 23:33, Neda Haghighi Saber <<a href="mailto:haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com" class="">haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thank you for the answer. </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 05:43 Jess Tauber <<a href="mailto:tetrahedralpt@gmail.com" class="">tetrahedralpt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">In Yahgan (genetic isolate, Tierra del Fuego), when a vowel is reduced to schwa, it generally doesn't affect nearby vowels in the word. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jess Tauber</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:19 PM Neda Haghighi Saber <<a href="mailto:haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">Dear friends,</font><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">When the vowel of a stressed syllable in a multy-syllabic word is reduced and changes into a schaw, what happens to its lexical stress? In other words, I`d like to know in which syllable it appears then. Is it rule-based and predictable or not?</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">Regards,</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">Neda</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class="">----</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" class="">Neda Haghighi Saber</font></div></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" class="">Linguistics Student </font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" class="">Allameh Tabatab`i Univesity</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" class="">Tehran</font></div><div class=""><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" class="">Iran</font></div></div>
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