HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE SCHWA AMERICAN ACCENT

Schwa is the name for the most common sound in English. It is a weak, unstressed sound and it occurs in many words. It is often the sound in grammar words such as articles and prepositions. 

Getting the schwa sound correct is a good way of making your pronunciation more accurate and natural. 

The phonemic symbol for this sound is . 

LINKS: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9NxK74JSE

Bbc learning english. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/features/schwa/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu51ECdLkIU

COMPONENTS OF THE LANGUAGE

SEMANTICS: The study of meaning in a language

PRAGMATICS: The study of meaning of a language in a context.

PHONOLOGY: The study of word formation in a language

MORPHOLOGY: The study of word formation in a language.

SYNTAX: The study of principles that govern a language.

LINGUISTICS

GRAMMAR: Deals with sets of rules that structure a long.

IPA: Set of symbols that represent the sound of a language

PHONETICS: Studies how sounds are produced.

MONOPHTHONGS, DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS

Monophthongs: A single vowel sound.

Diphthongs: Two vowel sound put together. A More open position glides into more close position.

Triphthongs: A dipththong plus another vowel sound.

All sounds are important in English so we must constantly practice with all Vocal sounds, so the impotence of phonetics and phonology.   The monophthongs and diphthongs total 14 vowel sounds, perhaps the smallest vowel system of any long-established variety of English. Urban Texas is also abandoning the ‘y’ sound after ‘n’, ‘d' and ‘t’, exchanging diphthongs for monophthongs. A study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs/aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.