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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Stressed /@/
Message-ID: <D2yoDx.GE1@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <D2MG04.219n@austin.ibm.com> <3fu86s$i9c@gordon.enea.se> <D2vI10.4J8p@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:37:06 GMT
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In article <D2vI10.4J8p@austin.ibm.com> olivier@glasnost.austin.ibm.com writes:
>In article <3fu86s$i9c@gordon.enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>> However English has streesed schwa as in /b@:d/.
>
>What word is it ???

_bird_.

>> Roumanian has a special letter for /@/, a-breve. Whether it ever
>> can be stressed I don't know, [...]

Of course it can, and very often is.

>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.

Let's recall how this discussion started:

  olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel) writes:
  : deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes:
  :(...)
  :: On a similar note, Mallorcan has a stressed phoneme [@],
  :: distinct from [a] and [e].
  :
  :Just curious, how do you stress a schwa ?

Need more be said?

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