%0 Journal Article %A Kuznetsova , Natalia %A Anderson, Cormac %+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society %T Vowel reduction and loss: challenges and perspectives : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-DB97-8 %R 10.26346/1120-2726-145 %7 2020 %D 2020 %* Review method: peer-reviewed %X This introduction gives an overview of a workshop on vowel reduction and loss held at SLE 2017 and the resulting papers collected here. It also discusses the present state of research on vowel reduction and loss in a number of perspectives and outlines the main themes dealt with throughout the course of this special issue. %K vowel reduction and loss, phonetics, phonology, issue overview, linguistic typology. %Z 1. Introduction 2. Existing accounts and general tendencies in vowel reduction and loss 3. Topics addressed in the issue %J Italian Journal of Linguistics %O Rivista di Linguistica IJL %& 3 %P 3 - 17 %] 145 %I Pacini %C Ospedaletto (Pisa) %@ 1120-2726