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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Open schwa [ə̞]
Open schwa [??] is the allophone of which phoneme please?
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It depends on the context in which it appears.
- It depends on the context in which it appears.
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fivejedjonIt depends on the context in which it appears.Can you elaborate please.
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In BrE:
[??] is frequently an allophone of /?/ in unstressed word-final position, for example in father, Russia, under.
For older speakers of RP, [??] is an allophone of /æ/.
For some speakers of RP, it is an allophone of /e/
In a few short words such as her, sir and were, it may be an allophone of /??/
It may be the first part of the vowel
[??] is frequently an allophone of /?/ in unstressed word-final position, for example in father, Russia, under.
For older speakers of RP, [??] is an allophone of /æ/.
For some speakers of RP, it is an allophone of /e/
In a few short words such as her, sir and were, it may be an allophone of /??/
It may be the first part of the vowel
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fivejedjonIt may be the first part of the vowel glide in the diphthong /e?/, and the second part of /e?/Firstly thank you for your explanation.
Can open schwa [??] also be an allophone of second part of diphthong /??/ in BrE as in the word 'here' /h??(r)/ please.
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