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Schwa

Published on May 01, 2021

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Schwa

No Stress Vowel
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Its the most common vowel sound.

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Any vowel can make a schwa sound.

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Sounds like short /u/ in bug but weaker.

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It's a lazy sound.

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It's found in unaccented words

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ACCENT, STRESS AND SCHWA

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Accent is also known as stress; in English we stress one syllable more than the others when we pronounce a word. Basically, this means that we say it louder than the other syllables.

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Accent has to do with how the vowel sounds.

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Schwa /ə/ is the sound an unaccented vowel can make that sounds like short u or “uh”.

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STRESS
Which part of the word sounds the loudest ?

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