As mentioned in the previous section, some linguists make a phonemic distinction between syllables that contain reduced vowels (as listed above - syllabic consonants are also included in this category), and those that, while being phonetically unstressed, nevertheless contain a full (unreduced) vowel.
A distinction of this type may become useful for the analysis of a potential contrast between words such as humanity, chicory, shivery and manatee, chickaree, shivaree.