schwa is not one sound but many

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun May 25 18:32:56 UTC 2008


At 1:13 PM -0400 5/25/08, Doug Harris wrote:
>Any relation?
>dh

Now you know why David B. is known in some circles as "Son of Schwa"  ;-)

LH



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>Schwa was introduced in American dictionaries by Clarence Barnhart . . .
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>David Barnhart
>barnhart at highlands.com
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