Schwa sound

English stress patterns Always have a primary stress The primary stress is the word that sticks out the most. Verify on dictionary.com. the primary will be marked with bold text or an apostrophe to the side. The rest of the syllables either get a secondary stress or a weak stress. The secondary stress is a pure vowel pronounced in an effortless way. It's not higher longer or louder. Opportunity Ah pur TUN uh (t)i Holiday HAH luh day Congratulations Kn gra dju LAY shuns Note: in words with a suffix like shun the primary stress is always the syllable before the suffix. If you can drop it to a schwa and it still makes sense, or it sounds better, then it's probably a Schwa. Kug It's a reduced sound It only appears in unstressed syllables It's not a real vowel but a reduction of all the other vowels This is so freaking confusing There is no specific spelling pattern for this vowel Modify Not MOD uh fuh Can't reduce the last syllable When a word ends in why it's always going to be a secondary stress. That's also a hint that you can do a reduction right before. English tries to work itself into a stressed and stressed pattern. So most often before a secondary stressed would be an unstressed Computer Km PU ter Management Man uh jmnt A as in about Oh as in Melody I as in Holiday U as in focus E Manager Io station Not using schwa doesn't take away from your clarity Meduhcine medEcine The sound makes you sound native and helps with your listening skills. Helps with the pronunciation of long words Schwa helps with reduction of less important non-functional words (have, will, to, the, for, when, can, etc) For example/ ferexample There is one primary stressed vowel per word all the rest are secondary or reduced vowels. a - MEY - zing si-tu-WEY-tion victory vic-to-ry VIK - tuh-ri congratulate con-GRA-tu-late k'n – GRA - djuh - leit If you can substitute a Schwa and it doesn't mess up the pronunciation then it should be a schwa. Primary stress is higher longer and louder Secondary stress is a pure vowel Congratulate k'n – GRA - djuh - leit Short long short medium Reducing the vowels changes the rhythm of the word. hospital HOS-pi-tal HAAS – puh – tl The shwa is affected by what comes before and what comes after it Dictionaries represent the Schwa as an upside down e. Reduced to a very neutral vowel sound uh The Schwa in around and people are slightly different. People is a schwa before dark L, holiday Schwa is also used in phrases for function words. Content words like nouns verbs adjectives and adverbs Function words are prepositions and articles and determiners on it at should could would have as our What do you whadaya Has a big part in American intonation rhythm and stress Practice: guess where the stress goes Campus Possibility Procedure Atmosphere Communicate Cafeteria Lemon Personal Creative At the beginning of words Today Tonight Tomorrow At the end of words Graduation Political Middle Ability