n. (also shwa) 1. The unrounded mid central vowel the neutral vowel produced with the tongue and lips in their rest positions. Schwa is the most frequent vowel in English, occurring for example in the first syllable of about and in the second syllable...

From Hebrew , diacritical vowel sign for a missing vowel or for the unstressed [ә]. In English, schwa is an unstressed vowel produced with the tongue in its (neutral) resting position, e.g. [pәlayt] polite. In Bulgarian gălăb...

n. (also mute e) The name given to schwa in French, including instances of ‘potential’ schwa which are not normally pronounced in standard northern...

n. A less usual spelling of...

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In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa can...