The reduction of the unstressed vowels in the English and Russian languages

Abstract

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the degrees of reduction of the unstressed vowels (quantitative, qualitative and zero) in the English and Russian languages. We also contemplate the words which have weak (reduced) forms.

Keywords

• безударный слог
• качественная редукция
• количественная редукция
• нейтральный гласный
• нулевая редукция
• позиционные чередования гласных