MID-CENTRALIZED VOWEL

A 'mid-centralized vowel' is a vowel closer to the center of the vowel space than some point of reference. That is, it is closer to schwa . The diacritic used to mark this in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the over-cross, .
In most languages, vowels become mid-centralized when spoken quickly, and in some, such as English and Russian, many vowels are also mid-centralized when unstressed.
Even when fully articulated, the vowels of a language may be on the schwa side of a cardinal IPA vowel. One example of this is Lisbon Portuguese, where unstressed ''e'' is a near-close near-back unrounded vowel. That is, it lies between the close back unrounded vowel and schwa, and may be written , as in ''pegar'' "to hold".

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★ centralization (phonetics)