Concept information
Preferred term
schwa
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- mid-central vowel
Definitional context(s)
- Schwa is defined as the mid-central vowel that occurs in unstressed syllables. (Choudhury, Basu & Sarkar, 2004)
Example
- Stress is generally predictable in the language as being word-final while ignoring schwas. (Dolatian, Swanson & Washington, 2022)
- Syllabification in Danish usually occurs when a schwa is assimilated and a sonorant becomes syllabic. (S\\oeborg Kirkedal, 2013)
In other languages
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French
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Chva
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-HMPP097S-H
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