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LSA Annual Meeting 11, 2004 Boston, MA-1- Vowel Reduction in russian :The Categorical and the GradientJonathan BarnesBoston UniversityI. Introduction Phonological Vowel Reduction (hereafter VR): neutralization of Vowel quality contrasts inunstressed syllables. Figures in recent theoretical literature ( Barnes 2002, Beckman 1998, Crosswhite2001, Flemming 2oo1a and b, Steriade 1994) as an example of a pattern of PositionalNeutralization with relatively clear phonetic underpinnings. Understanding the relationship between these phonetic underpinnings and thephonological grammar in patterns such as VR is a central task of current work on thephonetics-phonology russian Vowel Facts Contemporary Standard russian : traditionally claimed to display two distinct patternsor degrees of VR, one for the syllable immediately preceding the tonic (here, firstpretonic), and one for all other unstressed syllables.
LSA Annual Meeting jabarnes@bu.edu January 11, 2004 Boston, MA-1-Vowel Reduction in Russian: The Categorical and the Gradient
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