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schwa N LING

schwa

رَمْزٌ لِحَرَكَةٍ صَوْتِيَّة

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Syncopation of phonemic middle schwa can further occur to give. en.wikipedia.org

This problem is usually solved by insertion of the schwa. en.wikipedia.org

There is also a schwa secundum (usually the indogermanicum is unsaid), namely some kind of reduced state of an originally short vowel. en.wikipedia.org

Furthermore, the schwa can prevent an awkward ending of a word ending in a consonant and a liquid ("peuple, sucre"). en.wikipedia.org

In some dialects but not all, schwa // is frequently omitted in writing, resulting in long consonant clusters on the surface (e.g. "pspngun" /pspun/). en.wikipedia.org

In other words, when a vowel-preceded consonant is followed by a vowel-succeeded consonant, the schwa inherent in the first consonant is deleted. en.wikipedia.org

That is, it is closer to the mid-central vowel schwa; it is not just centralized, but also raised or lowered. en.wikipedia.org

When the accent falls on a closed syllable containing schwa, it becomes fronted and raised to. en.wikipedia.org

A syllabic consonant may be analyzed phonologically either as just the consonant, or as consisting of an underlying schwa followed by the consonant. en.wikipedia.org

The schwa is in the center of the chart and is frequently referred to as the neutral vowel. en.wikipedia.org

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