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ghogproc
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 Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: ^ vs. schwa |
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I don't hear difference between the sounds of these two symbols, but my dictionary writes that with the word [stomach] the o is the ^ sound and the a is the schwa sound. They sound equal to me. Help!
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Stomach sounds like stumuk. As you say, the two vowel sounds are almost identical. |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| They are not the same to me. One is stressed (the first syllable of stomach) and the second is unstressed. I pronounce them a little differently, myself. The reduction doesn't have the same full sound in my opinion--at least not in my speech. You can use different symbols for it, but it's the reduced sound. |
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