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/ʃwɑ/ · noun
(phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA..
The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
Use schwa when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Schwa means (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA..
Common synonyms include natural vowel, neutral vowel, shwa.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
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