5. Before people started calling it “schwa” in English (around 1895) it had a lot of nicknames. It’s been called the murmur vowel, the indeterminate vowel, the neutral vowel, the obscure ...

Any vowel letter can be pronounced as schwa and the pronunciation of a vowel letter can change depending on whether the syllable in which it occurs is stressed or not. Listen to these two words: ...

The vowels of the IPA aren't just a collection of symbols—they're also arranged into a chart where the position of the symbol roughly corresponds to the position of the tongue in the mouth when ...

The difference is that an umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel (Brünnhilde), and often changes the meaning of a word: schon (adv.), already; schön (adj.), beautiful.

For a start, some of the vowel symbols assume a speaker possesses what linguists call a non-rhotic variety of English ... The ABC's pronunciation key does not currently distinguish these sounds.