riduzione timbrica
English translation: timbre/tone reduction
| 17:57 Feb 22, 2006 |
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|  Selected response from: Theodora OB Local time: 19:00 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | timbre/tone reduction |
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| 3 | quality reduction |
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46 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1timbre/tone reduction Explanation: Whether those are linguistics terms, I don't know but the concept is correct. |
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quality reduction Explanation: Ciao Giovanna, credo che nel campo (fonologia) si parli di "quality reduction" http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossary_fe/glossary.asp?entr... timbre vocalique Eng (vowel) quality Domain: Phonology Source(s): Bally 1950: 275-276; Mackay 1989: 231 http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-english.htm Thus the difference in **vowel quality (vowel timbre, vowel colour)** between such pairs of vowels was not shown explicitly but had to be inferred from the presence or absence of the length mark http://web.mit.edu/~flemming/www/paper/reduced-rev2.pdf A contextually variable high vowel is also the result of *vowel reduction* in Dutch in most contexts (van Bergem 1994), suggesting that this type of vowel may be typical in contexts where all *vowel quality contrasts* are neutralized. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2006-02-23 09:32:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- a conferma del mio sospetto, non mi pare si ottengano google hits pertinenti né per *timbre reduction* né per *tone reduction* fwiw |
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