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How to pronunce schwa https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a4b88785-7d0a-4a93... From Stranger things. In the video she says "borrow" like "bor" with no "row" at all. Is that sounds clear and understandable to natives. I notice that sometimes natives turn a vowel into schwa and cancel it, is this true?
18 wrz 2022 07:36
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Rather than click on the link and play the recording, I’ll simply go with what the others have said, and just add that the word “borrow” is an interesting example of where we use a clear vowel even in a completely unaccented syllable. More often than not, if a syllable does not bear primary or secondary stress, the vowel is reduced to a schwa, but “borrow” (and “window”, “yellow”, “hallow”, etc.) are words where the final syllable is completely unstressed, yet not reduced to a schwa. (Also, the /iː/ vowel tends not to be reduced to a schwa, even in unstressed syllables.) Note that in some regional accents, the final vowel in such words can be reduced, but this would be considered non-standard. It’s interesting to note that etymologically, the Old English forms of “borrow” and “hallow” had no “o” and no “w”. The “g” changed into a “w”, and an epenthetic “o” vowel was inserted before (i.e. to ease pronunciation). Old English: borrow — borgian; hallow —halgian
20 września 2022
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I hear the full “borrow”. There’s not a lot of stress on each syllable, as it glides between them on the rr’s. Can you at least hear that it ends in “oh” (rhymes with “no”)?
18 września 2022
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I need to hear that sentence for context. I'm in the midwestern US so we would say "bara". You may have heard "bara" or "bora" we truncate it when in the middle of a sentence if the next word begins with a consonant. "Can I bara that book" but then I would say "Can I borrow your car" "Can I bara the car". Notice the vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel relationship. You can get many opinions on this depending on where the speaker is from because there are not rules for this.
18 września 2022
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I heard "borrow my" [bɑroʊmaɪ] with a General American accent. (Wikipedia has plenty of details about General American.) Note that the actress used [ɑ], not [ɔ]. She said [bɑroʊ] not [bɔroʊ] (which is a regional pronunciation).
18 września 2022
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Sorry, i just listened to the clip. She says borrow not bor. Your ear will pick it up as you listen more. I struggle with this in my target language too.
18 września 2022
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