Timeline for schwa in a single syllable word
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| May 8, 2016 at 20:09 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | I can't condone this answer (despite the fact that it says some useful things). MW is pants for pronunciation. :( | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 0:13 | comment | added | Cyclone | My teacher asked me if I was familiar with the IPA, and I said yes. We then reviewed them. I noticed the abscense of the wedge in the vowels list so I asked him why, and he replied that it is an unnecessary hassle as it is just a stressed schwa. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 18:49 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | @sumelic What I am trying to wrap my head around here is how this affects accent neutralization. When I was coaching accent we never taught /ə/ until after teaching all other vowels using minimal pairs, which of course were single-syllable words. It wasn't until we got to 2 and 3 syllable words that we discussed the schwa. Later we carried the topic over to word stress in sentence prosody. Are accent coaches now teaching /ə/ before other vowels? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 18:11 | comment | added | sumelic | One piece of evidence that /ʌ/ has been identified as the stressed counterpart of /ə/ in American English is the formation of new strong (i.e. stressed) forms of the words of, what, and was that have /ʌ/ instead of /ɑ/. Also, stressed were has /ɝ/ instead of /e˞/. These pronunciations seem to be derived from the unstressed forms of these words which have /ə/ and /ɚ/. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 7:25 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | Part of the confusion is arising out of the different pronunciation schemes used by different dictionaries. Since MW does not use IPA, I prefer to rely on OALD or Cambridge. Your teacher is correct in saying that /ʌ/ is longer than /ə/, but calling it a stressed schwa is confusing the issue IMHO. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 6:58 | history | answered | Cyclone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |