Extra-shortness
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox IPA/core1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) uses a breve Template:Angbr IPA to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with extra-short duration. That is, Script error: No such module "IPA". is a very short vowel with the quality of Script error: No such module "IPA".. An example from English is the short schwa of the word police Script error: No such module "IPA"..[1] This is typical of vowel reduction.
Before the 1989 Kiel Convention, the breve was used for a non-syllabic vowel (that is, part of a diphthong), which is now indicated by an Template:Em breve placed under the vowel letter, as in eye Script error: No such module "IPA".. It is also sometimes used for any flap consonants missing dedicated symbols in the IPA, since a flap is in effect a very brief stop.
References
Template:Suprasegmentals Template:Phonetics-stub
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".