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From: olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel)
Subject: Re: Stressed /@/
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In article <3fu86s$i9c@gordon.enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> Right about "cup", at least for the English I learnt in school.
> However English has streesed schwa as in /b@:d/.

What word is it ???

> Roumanian has a special letter for /@/, a-breve. Whether it ever
> can be stressed I don't know, but anyway, a schwa is just a central
> half-closed rounded vowel, so it of course it can be stressed,
> albeit not in contemporary French or Swedish.

I'm not saying that a sound realized as schwa is cannot be stressed, I'm
just saying that if it is it's not called schwa.

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Olivier.
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