The unstressed first and third syllables are also unstressed vowels, making them schwa sounds. The stressed second syllable has the ‘a’ vowel, but, since it’s stressed, it’s pronounced with the short ‘a’ sound.
Note how the second syllable is stressed while the first and third are not. If you sound it out, paying attention to the schwa ‘a’ sound, it sounds like As schwa sounds, these vowels commonly sound like /uh/ (like the sound people make when they’re thinking). Vowels don’t make their long or short sounds when they appear in unstressed syllables. Not only is the schwa sound common, but it can be spelled with any vowel, which can make writing and spelling schwa sounds a challenge for students.
Schwa is the sound a vowel makes in an unstressed syllable and is represented by the phonetic symbol /Ə/ (like an upside-down, reversed e). Schwa refers to the most common vowel sound in the English language. Not only is it fun to say, schwa is actually derived from Hebrew.
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