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Articulatory phonetics

What is schwa?

04/08/2020 by Andrea Brink Siem
what is schwa

A friend asked me this question recently. I thought the answer was simple, something along the lines of ‘it is the sound you make in unstressed syllables when your oral articulators are doing nothing and your vocal folds vibrate’. A sort of unmarked setting of the articulatory muscles if you … ↪

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