Schwa is an unstressed vowel phoneme, usually found in multisyllabic words. One syllable contains a strong vowel phoneme (short, long, r controlled, diphthong, or oo), while the other contains the weak schwa phoneme. Examples of this are spid er , doct or , coll ar , apr o n, creat ure In words like table, little, or circle there is no grapheme representing the schwa. Similar to words like cute and cube that don't...
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