quantity re
duction,
while the omission of the clear tamber of a vowel is
termed as a
quality reduction.
The most widespread type of
quality reduction is neutralization, used in the phonetic but not
phonological sense. The vowels of the neutral tamber have fea
tures similar to vowels with a certain quality called
«cardinal
tambers»
by A.L. Trakhterov4. Speaking about /э/ it is better to
describe it as
«neutral tamber»,
than
«neutral position»
of
1
D. Jones.
An Outline of English Phonetics. 9th ed. London, I960, 368.
2
В.А.Васипъев.
Обучение английскому произношению в средней школе. М., Изд.
«Просвещение», 1979, с. 102.
Г.П. Торсуев.
Фонетика английского языка. М.,
1950, с. 103.
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