Schwa is a very short neutral vowel sound, and like all other vowels, its precise quality varies depending on the adjacent consonants.
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Neutral vowels may be " opaque " and block harmonic processes or they may be " transparent " and not affect them.
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Neutral vowels can be combined with either type of vowel, although a word that contains only neutral vowels has front vowel harmony.
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Neutral vowels can be combined with either type of vowel, although a word that contains only neutral vowels has front vowel harmony.
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Neutral vowels do not harmonize to the [ ATR ] value of the word, and instead maintain their own [ ATR ] value.
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The only neutral vowel is " i ", like in Votic but unlike Finnish and Karelian, where " e " is also neutral.
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Each consonant shown below is deemed to be followed by the neutral vowel schwa ( ), and is named in the table as such.
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In relation to certain languages, the name " schwa " and the symbol may be used for some other toneless neutral vowel, not necessarily mid-central.
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Some Finnish words whose stems contain only neutral vowels exhibit an alternating pattern in terms of vowel harmony when inflected or forming new words through derivation.
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In linguistics, a schwa is an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel ( rounded or unrounded ).
