Can a schwa be elided in very rapid speech?

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It's a special sound that certain vowels make in the right conditions. That sound is the same sound that the short letter “u” makes! Jun 26, 2018 ... /ə/ appears roughly once in every three vowel sounds a native GB English speaker makes. If you think of any word with three or more syllables, ... Dec 8, 2007 ... Although both mid central and variable schwa can arise via vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, both result from assimilation to context, so ... What is a "schwa" in linguistics? Where can I find it in Sanskrit? Schwa is the mid central vowel, a vowel sound in phonetics that is commonly represented by ... Mar 23, 2022 ... No. While some dialects present some variations from the five core sounds (particularly in dialects with s-aspiration), none of them that I'm ... Jun 15, 2020 ... In Emoji & Symbols, type schwa in the search box. On the ABC Extended input source, type option shift semicolon, let go and then type e. This relaxed, neutral phoneme is represented by the symbol /ə/. The schwa can be spelled by any vowel letter (a, e, i, o, u, and even y) in an unstressed ... Oct 1, 2022 ... Yes, you can use schwa for unstressed vowel allophones. Although quite frequently it's [ɨ] and not [ə] that's the unstressed allophone, especially with high ... For example schwa is a frequent epenthetic vowel, and has often been analysed as featureless in consequence. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The hypothetical ... National Schwa Day is observed on April 7. It is all about celebrating the schwa – a sound in the English language- through reading, writing, speaking, and ...
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