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Re: Questions about Schwa and Stress

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Saturday, October 13, 2001, 12:16
>From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...> >In a message dated 10/12/01 10:12:32 PM, steven@OLYWA.NET writes: > ><< I REALLY need to know whether there are any languages in which vowels
never
> >reduce to schwa. >> > > Spanish. At least, Mexican Spanish; I won't vouch for any of the other >myriad countries. /e/ is realized as either [e] or [E], but I think that's >about the only vowel variation there is, other than diphthongs. Here's a >sample: > >¡Entonces, mientres que yo mataba el pollo en la casa, una mujer con una >cuchilla me mató!
I think I'd have something like: [EntOnsEh mjEntrEskjomAtABAlpoj\ojnlAkAsA unAmuhE4 kOnunAkUcCij\A mEmAtO] But again, no schwas.
> All the /a/'s are [A], all the /e/'s but the last are [E], all the
/u/'s
>are [u] (except for in "que", in which /qu/ is [k]), all the /o/'s are [o] >(save maybe in front of /ll/, where it may become [O]) and all the /i/'s
are
>[i] (except in "mientres", where it's [ij]). No schwas.
(I'm still not exactly sure about the difference between [o] and [O] yet so I'm not sure my transcription of them is accurate.) *Muke!