what is an unstressed vowel ?

Question

childrens homework I cant help!!!!!

Answer 1

Y I

Answer 2

Unstressed Vowel

In English, an unstressed or reduced vowel is the vowel sound that forms the syllable peak of a syllable that has no lexical stress. This sound is typically a schwa, although there are other vowels that can be unstressed or reduced. A reduced vowel is one of the vowels that can only occur in unstressed syllables, like schwa, and an unstressed vowel is one of the vowels that can be stressed but is not.

Reduced vowels
Schwa is the most common reduced vowel in English, and may be denoted by any of the vowel letters:

* The a in about.
* The e in synthesis.
* The o in harmony.
* The u in medium.

The following are also schwas, except in dialects that have two distinct reduced vowels (see below).

* The i in decimal.
* The y in syringe.

Whereas the sound represented by the er in water is a schwa in non-rhotic accents like Received Pronunciation, in rhotic dialects like most of North American English, this sound is not a schwa sound; rather, the "er" designates an r-colored schwa, /ɚ/, which is pronounced like schwa, except the tongue is pulled back in the mouth and "bunched up".

In some dialects of English there is a distinction between two vowel heights of reduced vowels, schwa and barred i, the close central unrounded vowel /ɨ/. In the British phonetic tradition, /ɪ/ is used to transcribe this vowel in British English instead of /ɨ/, but the sound is the same. An example of a minimal pair contrasting schwa and barred i:

* The e in roses is a barred i
* The a in Rosa's is a schwa

The other sounds that can serve as the peak of reduced syllables are the syllabic consonants. The consonants that can be syllabic in English are the nasals /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, and /l/ (actually a dark [ɫ]). For example:

* The m in prism is sometimes a syllabic /m/.
* The on in button is a syllabic /n/ in dialects that pronounce intervocalic 't' as a glottal stop.
* The word and in the phrase lock and key in more rapid speech is sometimes pronounced as a syllabic /ŋ/.
* The le in cycle and bottle is a syllablic /l/.

Unstressed vowels

All the other vowels in English can occur in unstressed syllables, although whether an unreduced vowel in such a syllable is really unstressed or merely has secondary stress is debatable.

Answer 3

The vowels are A,E,I,O,U, . In the word, mean - there are two unstressed vowels. In the word ace - the a is stressed and the e is unstressed. I think that's right. Stressed vowels sound like they are spoken individually the A in Ace for example. The U in Use. But the E in use - is unstressed.

Answer 4

In English, an unstressed or reduced vowel is the vowel sound that forms the syllable peak of a syllable that has no lexical stress. This sound is typically a schwa, although there are other vowels that can be unstressed or reduced. A reduced vowel is one of the vowels that can only occur in unstressed syllables, like schwa, and an unstressed vowel is one of the vowels that can be stressed but is not.

Answer 5

it is literally the vowel(s) in a word that are not stressed. eg in vowel the 'e' is unstressed, with emphasis lying on the 'ow' sound.

Answer 6

it's vowel that is not emphasised in saying the word. eg. homework, o,e and o are not stressed but the consonants are.

Oblivious has the vowels stressed O and ious for example

Answer 7

an unstressed voewl is simply an A pronoced as aaaaaaaaaa, instead of AHHHHHH

Answer 8

to use a vowel without emphasising it

Answer 9

One that's been down the pub for a few hours.

Answer 10

I think it's the part of a word where you say it and you don't raise your tone. You don't "stress" that part of the word when you say it. But I don't really know. LOL

Answer 11

It's this x

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstressed_vowel