pron. of just

[Tom Zurinskas]

If schwa is defined as one sound  then USA English pronunciation of course should not use schwa for the various sounds it is used for.

I see "association" has "tion" with a syllablized n, but international has "tion" with a schwa.  Go figure.  The reason is that the schwa is there in both cases but when the suffix "al" is added one need flag that the schwa is there because it's pronounced not elided.

What is this famous sound of schwa, "uh" as in short u.  As far as I'm concerned if it is this sound, it's not schwa at all.  It is that sound.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com


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> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:46:21 -0500
> From: hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: pron. of just
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Herb Stahlke
> Subject: Re: pron. of just
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> I checked the IPA web site. The IPA shows schwa in its vowel chart
> specifically as an unrounded mid central vowel
> (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/vowels.html). The IPA transcription of
> "International Phonetic Association" represents the RP pronunciation
> in which all five schwas are that unrounded mid central vowel. They
> do not represent other vowel sounds. They may correspond to different
> spellings, but that's irrelevant. And note that "association" is
> transcribed with a final syllabic /n/.
>
> Herb
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
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>> The IPA notation that I see at the IPA site has schwa for many sounds. See the foespeleeng of International Phonetic Association.
>>
>> http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> see truespel.com
>>
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