Extra-shortness
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Extra-short | |
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◌̆ | |
IPA Number | 505 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ̆ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0306 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve ⟨ ˘ ⟩ to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with extra-short duration. That is, [ă] is a very short vowel with the quality of [a]. An example from English is the short schwa of the word police [pə̆ˈliˑs].[1] This is typical of vowel reduction.
Before the 1989
stop
.
References
- ISBN 0521652367.