a-schwaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

a-schwa (複数形 a-schwas)

1. The vowel [ɐ], which lies between [a] and [ə] (true schwa).

   Coordinate terms: schwa, schwi

   • 2003, John R. Rennison and Friedrich Neubarth, An x-bar theory of Government Phonology, Living on the Edge, 28 Papers in Honour of Johnathan Kaye, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 128:

     Fact is that non-low vowels before /R/ are lowered or form falling diphthongs with an a-schwa, which apparently calls for a spreading analysis.

   • a. 2008, Dorit Ravid, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Agnita Souman, Katja Rehfeldt, Sabine Laaha, Johannes Bertl, Hans Basbøll and Steven Gillis, "Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals", in: Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives (Trends in Language Acquisition Research 6), edited by Heike Behrens, 2008, John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, page 35:

     Similar to German, the a-schwa plural suffix may combine with Umlaut, and Umlaut can also be the only plural marker (i.e. "combine with zero").