Can the schwa carry stress in certain circumstances?

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The Not-So-Lazy Schwa ... Shipping calculated at checkout. ... This book is best used with students who've learned vowel sounds and are being introduced to the ... Mar 8, 2022 ... Schwa is essentially an allophonic unstressed vowel, so regularly alternates with full vowel values and doesn't require a dedicated symbol. Spelling the schwa ending: er, or, ar. We've put lots of examples of words that end in a schwa sound in the table below. Here are two answers: (1) it is an unstressed syllable in a word with more than one syllable; and (2) it is the neutral vowel [ə] schwa. Although this describes ... Jul 26, 2021 ... The Schwa shows up in unstressed syllables as it's classified as a quick, fast sound. It is sometimes difficult to recognize the stressed syllable in words. Aug 5, 2024 ... Merriam-Webster defines schwa as “an unstressed mid-central vowel (such as the usual sound of the first and last vowels of the English word America),” Dec 16, 2024 ... The schwa sound, often referred to as the “lazy sound,” appears in the unstressed syllables of many words. Young learners frequently struggle to ... Jan 14, 2020 ... A schwa is the ǝ symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It is an unstressed syllable pronounced like “uh.” Most of the time, this ... Jun 22, 2022 ... The schwa is always short and always unstressed. Patricia Fletcher explains in Classically Speaking that it is a “shorter, more relaxed version of stressed /ʌ/ ... This list can be used to help young readers practice multisyllable words with short vowel sounds and schwa sounds.
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