THE SCHWA SOUND / ə / The commonest vowel sound in English The vowel sound schwa is always unstressed. Schwa is a neutral, fast, and relaxed vowel pronunciation, very close to 'short u' / ʌ /. To produce the schwa the lips, jaw and neck should be relaxed....
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THE SCHWA SOUND / ə / The commonest vowel sound in English The vowel sound schwa is always unstressed. Schwa is a neutral, fast, and relaxed vowel pronunciation, very close to 'short u' / ʌ /. To produce the schwa the lips, jaw and neck should be relaxed. Just lower you jaw a little to make it. The trick is to keep everything else relaxed. Schwa occurs in the syllable next to a stressed syllable. The schwa occurs: 1. Unstressed syllables in multi-syllable words 2. Reduced vowels sound of function words The stressed syllable has the most emphasize of the word. The unstressed syllable is reduced to the schwa a, e and i spelling a-GAIN VIT-a-min e-LEC-tric CEL-e-brate PRES-i-dent ex-PER-i-ment Stressed syllables are capital letters Reduced syllables (schwa) are underlined Functional words: they have two different pronunciation
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