SCHWA

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N., Pam M.S.
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Mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English. Symbol (?) used to represent an unstressed neutral vowel and, in some systems of phonetic transcription, a stressed mid-central vowel.

SCHWA: "The schwa is an unstressed syllable in the English language."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (IPA)
  2. SEMIVOWEL
  3. REBUS WRITING
  4. AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (ANS)
  5. DYSPHONETIC DYSLEXIA
  6. PHYSICAL SYMBOL SYSTEM HYPOTHESIS
  7. SYLLABLE
  8. GUANINE
  9. ASSOCIATION VALUE
  10. SONANT
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "SCHWA," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 28, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/schwa/ (accessed August 8, 2020).
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