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Vowel reduction[edit]
Is there any language with vowel reduction where reduced vowels can be long? --40bus (talk) 20:40, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- This might be a contradiction in terms of vowel reduction, which is a property of stress timing. However, in the latter article, it is noted that stress timing and syllable timing are a continuum, so in something like Indian English you may, in some accents, see vowels that are lax in articulation (and reduced in stress-timed English varieties) but still almost as long as syllables with tense vowels. You may have to browse around a bit, say of Indo-Pakistani media, to find a suitable recording, if this would fit your definition. SamuelRiv (talk) 19:11, 6 April 2024 (UTC)