•Loss of an unstressed medial vowel
(also referred to as syncope), where the unstressed vowel
/«/ or /I/ optionally drops
out in some multisyllabic words following the strongly stressed
syllable:
•Examples:
•1. “i” privilege,
family, aspirin
•2. “e” temperature,
every, evening, camera,
•3. “a” comparable,
restaurant
•4. “o” potato,
chocolate, history, laboratory
•5. correct, garage, parade