[ð]→[ə]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 4/5
Voiced dental fricative to Mid central vowel
The reduction of the voiced dental fricative [ð] to a neutral schwa [ə] or its complete elision is a common feature of rapid speech and specific dialectal lenition processes.
Phonetic Effects
Reduction, Elision, Lenition
Language Examples
cansado [kanˈsaðo]→[kanˈsao]— Intervocalic [ð] (from /d/) is elided in many dialects, effectively reducing the syllable to its vowel nucleus.
months [mʌnðz]→[mʌnəz]— Reduction of the complex cluster in rapid or dialectal speech.
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