| 1. | Short unstressed vowels tend to be reduced to the neutral vowel schwa.
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| 2. | There is also one neutral vowel,, not belonging to either group.
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| 3. | Therefore if a word contains back vowels, neutral vowels may appear alongside them.
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| 4. | If the diphthong is followed by a neutral vowel, a little flick is added.
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| 5. | There is little or no change in the actual vowel quality of the neutral vowels.
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| 6. | The vowel harmony system distinguishes front, back and neutral vowels, much like the system found in Finnish.
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| 7. | Words may generally not contain both front-harmonic and back-harmonic vowels; but both groups can combine with neutral vowels.
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| 8. | Most of the time, however, the neutral vowel [ h : ] is appended to achieve the desired effect.
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| 9. | While,,, and are all front unrounded vowels, they are considered to be " neutral vowels " in Hungarian vowel harmony.
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| 10. | The schwa [ Y ] is in the center of the chart and is frequently referred to as the neutral vowel.
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