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Stress is a prominent feature of the English language, both at the level of the word and at the level of the phrase or sentence. Absence of stress on a syllable, or on a word in some cases, is frequently associated in English with vowel reduction – many such syllables are pronounced with a centralized vowel or with certain other vowels that are described as being "reduced". Various phonological analyses exist for these phenomena.

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