Practicing short vowel sounds:
... Some activities to help practice differentiating/producing short vowel sounds: - Have the learner hold a mirror up to his/her mouth to watch the different shape the mouth takes when it makes the different sounds. Exaggerate the mouth movements (opening mouth up and down for (a), widening lips for (e ...
... Some activities to help practice differentiating/producing short vowel sounds: - Have the learner hold a mirror up to his/her mouth to watch the different shape the mouth takes when it makes the different sounds. Exaggerate the mouth movements (opening mouth up and down for (a), widening lips for (e ...
Schwa
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In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa (/ʃwɑː/) (sometimes spelled shwa) refers to the mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, denoted by the IPA symbol ə, or another vowel sound close to that position. An example in English is the vowel sound in the 'a' of the word 'about'. Schwa in English is mainly found in unstressed positions, but in some other languages it occurs more frequently as a stressed vowel.In relation to certain languages, the name ""schwa"" and the symbol ə may be used for some other unstressed and toneless neutral vowel, not necessarily mid-central.