Re: YAEPT: OMFG I'm a mutant!!! (was Re: Advanced English to become official!)

On Apr 5, 2005 8:40 PM, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> Schwa is a mid central vowel. In English, a short schwa is the realisation
> of several reduced vowels.
Isn't it the other way around?  In English, unstressed vowels often
reduce to /@/, but /@/ has many phonetic realizations, of which [@] is
only one.  Others in my 'lect include [1], [U] (the name of the
current month has a [U] in its second syllable IMD), syllabification
of following consonants, etc.  Heck, I would not be surprised to find
out that there were English dialects which lack [@] completely, having
only other realizations of what we think of as /@/.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>