Sujet : Re: Galveston
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 24. Mar 2025, 17:31:42
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On 2025-03-23, Ruud Harmsen <
rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
I can clearly hear a difference, though, both in AmEng and in BrEng.
The STRUT vowel is closer to the Dutch DAK vowel (though not the
same), and the English shwa (as in ago, akin, idea, era, and in
non-rhotic better etc.) is, well, identical with the Dutch shwa.
Geoff Lindsey has a lot to say on this in his blog entry
STRUT ʌ, schwa ə and American English
https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/strut-%ca%8c-schwa-%c9%99-and-american-english/and the two videos linked from there
"Schwa is never stressed" – FALSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt66Je3o0QgSchwa /ə/ and STRUT /ʌ/ vowels in EVERY English accent (almost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HvF0fC1OEAlso, a beautiful example of stressed schwa by Natalie Dormer in
Games of Thrones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0iDuyyGYWo&t=16s"Do you want to be a queen?" -- "No. I want to be THUH queen."
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de