| 词汇 | schwa |
| 释义 | schwa noun[ C ] (alsoshwa)uk /ʃwɑː/ us /ʃwɑː/ the weak vowel sound in some syllables that is not emphasized, such as the first syllable of "about" and the second syllable of "given", or the ə symbol that represents this sound非重读央元音，混元音;音标符号／ə／ Linguistics: phonology & phonetics accommodation alliterative alveolar apheresis aphesis assonance diphthong intrusive labial labialize labiodental mispronounce postalveolar postconsonantal retroflex retroflexion rhotic the International Phonetic Alphabet unpronounceable unrepeatable Examples of schwaschwa The best way to elicit a schwa is to direct attention away from it and on to the stressed syllable of the word. We find greater tip raising before both types of schwa, indicating light \\l\\ before schwa and dark \\l\\ in coda position. The innovative variants are used by the younger non-professional speakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations. The preservation of schwa in a converging phonological system. This is consistent with the idea that for at least these speakers there is a phonological difference between the two schwas. When utterances are cited, this method of transcribing the original schwas has been retained. These manipulated recordings were then presented to a second population (44 listeners), who heard what sounded like a schwa vowel pronounced with varying pitch. Following all other vowels (the high vowels and diphthongal offglides), a historical final \\r\\ appears as a final schwa. Excised schwas were always cut from and inserted at zero crossings to avoid acoustic artifacts. This tendency may well reflect the conservatism of dictionary representations in admitting schwa variants. We examine tongue position during \\l\\ before underlying schwa and epenthetic schwa and in coda position. For example schwa is a frequent epenthetic vowel, and has often been analysed as featureless in consequence. The hypothetical example discussed is that obstruents are deleted in the coda but schwa is epenthesised after coda sonorants. However, it would not be quite correct to say that the intrusive schwa conditions the degemination or vice versa. However, assuming underlying schwas elsewhere seems to counter the desire to account for the predictability of non-alternating schwas. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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