[Spellyans] Three schwas

[Jon Mills]

Today's speakers of Cornish do indeed tend to use the reduced vowels that you mention, Michael. The term 'schwa' is normally reserved for [@] (the turned e, U+0259). This practice is much the same as is found in English.
Ol an gwella
Jon


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Subject: [Spellyans] Three schwas
> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:16:17 +0100
> 
> 
> In our analysis of unstressed vowels, we have not
> taken something acoustic into account. I don't
> know whether Jon will like this or not, but it is
> certainly something easily observed in Revived
> Cornish.
> 
> There are three schwas. Standard schwa [@] (the
> turned e, U+0259), i-coloured schwa [1] (the
> barred i (with dot), U+0268), and u-coloured
> schwa [}] (the barred u, U+0289).
> 
> Examples:
> 
> tavas /'tav at z/
> gwelys /'gwEl1s/ 'seen'; cf. gwelas /'gwEl at s/ 'saw'
> arlùth /'arl}T/
> 
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
> where in the centre of the chart you find the
> standard schwa and the barred-i
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel
> and the barred-u
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel
> 
> Note that in English the same distinction
> applies: "Rosa's" is /'roUz at z/, "roses" is
> /'roUz1z/.
> 
> Actually I think the correct symbol for the
> u-coloured schwa is an unofficial IPA symbol used
> by the OED, barred-upsilon. Hm. I may have to
> encode that.
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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Dr. Jon Mills,
School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent


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