| 11. | It is one of two reduced vowels that are collectively known as the yers in Slavic philology.
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| 12. | In fact, it is not clear that a reduced vowel should be considered as comprising a whole syllable.
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| 13. | In polysyllabic words, the front-back distinction is lost in reduced vowels : all become mid-central.
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| 14. | The phonetic value of such reduced vowels differs depending both on the value of original vowel and the dialect spoken.
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| 15. | Long vowels were systematically marked by a dot below the letter, while the reduced vowel schwa was marked by ?
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| 16. | With vowels represented as and, it may be hard to ascertain whether they represent a full vowel or a reduced vowel.
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| 17. | The Obdorsk dialect has retained full close vowels and has a nine-vowel system : full vowels and reduced vowels ).
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| 18. | When assuming a separate set of reduced vowels, the former may end with, while the latter may end with an unreduced.
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| 19. | That is, the jaw, which to a large extent controls vowel height, tends to be relaxed when pronouncing reduced vowels.
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| 20. | The vowel itself does not exist as a phoneme in other Slavic languages, though a similar reduced vowel transcribed as does occur.
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