Stress is important as it relates to the phonological changes that occur in the Creole. For instance, there is reduction by way of prominence reduction of unstressed vowels. This means that relatively long vowels in an unstressed position are replaced by shorter vowels of a similar quality.⁶ :So, as a general rule, low and mid-vowels are contrastive under stress in SLPC, but neutralized and given the features of a mid-vowel when not stressed. Another way to say this is that through a pattern of neutralization, high vowels are eliminated in SLPC. The pattern of vowel reduction is shown in Table (1) below: