Linguistic research indicates that the most common sound in spoken English is the schwa vowel sound. The phonetic symbol for schwa is /ə/. The schwa sounds like “uh”. Now….. Why is the schwa sound so common? The schwa is the most common sound because native speakers use this sound to pronounce vowels in reduced syllables.
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Those of you who read my blog frequently know that using syllable stress correctly is one of the very best ways to improve your comprehensibility when you speak English. That said, here are a few syllable stress patterns for compound words that you may find useful. Compound nouns are stressed on the first word in
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Haitian Creole speakers and French speakers have some of the same problems with spoken English. One of these is the tendency to delete the /h/ sound at the beginning of words. Word initial /h/ is almost always pronounced in American English. That means that the /h/ must be articulated clearly in words such as: hat,
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