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- noun Plural form of
schwa .
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Examples
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In certain cases of intrusive R such as “Asiar and Africa” there is a need for _some_ articulatory gesture to mark the word boundary between the schwas of “Asia” and “and”.
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This is the way chinese say "herfst": schwas after the r, f, s and the final t.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Hans: The Etruscans had no way presumably to show schwas in writing.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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"This is the way chinese say 'herfst': schwas after the r, f, s and the final t."
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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The Etruscans had no way presumably to show schwas in writing.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Despite what you've read, Etruscans spelled faithfully what they pronounced, including schwas.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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My instinct has always been to attribute it to the age of the Syncope rule when unstressed schwas were deleted.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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Likewise, Etruscan doesn't need intervening schwas neighbouring resonants to "make it pronounceable" to the Etruscan tongue.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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My instinct has always been to attribute it to the age of the Syncope rule when unstressed schwas were deleted.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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I thought some time about schwas but forgot to write about them.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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