CLIPPING (PHONETICS)

In phonetics, 'clipping' is the process of shortening the articulation of a phonetic segment, usually a vowel. A 'clipped vowel' is pronounced more quickly than an unclipped vowel, and these clipped vowels are often also reduced. In English, clipping without vowel reduction most often occurs in a stressed syllable before a voiceless consonant, and clipping with vowel reduction occurs in many unstressed syllables.