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minus-squareJackGreenEarth@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoIn these examples such as curd and full, isn’t shwa the vowel? You can’t actually not have a vowel if you pronounce it.
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months ago/ɚ/ as in “nurse”, “curd”, “certain”, is usually labelled a “rhotacized vowel” in a phonemic context but it’s more precisely described as an approximant. And as I said, “full” is pronounced with no vowel in certain varieties.
In these examples such as curd and full, isn’t shwa the vowel? You can’t actually not have a vowel if you pronounce it.
/ɚ/ as in “nurse”, “curd”, “certain”, is usually labelled a “rhotacized vowel” in a phonemic context but it’s more precisely described as an approximant. And as I said, “full” is pronounced with no vowel in certain varieties.