'schwa' - articulation and use of a sound in the English and French language

Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Veranstaltung: Aspects of Contemporary French, 6 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: Comparison with French, double spaced , Abstract: Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Description of the schwa sound 3. The French / / sound 3.1. The French schwa at the end of the "mot phonétique" 3.2. The French schwa inside the "mot phonétique" 3.2.1. The schwa in front of a vowel 3.2.2. The schwa in front of consonants 3.3. The French schwa at the beginning of a "mot phonétique" 3.4. Several schwa sounds after each other 3.5. Proper names 4. The English schwa 4.1. Unaccented position 4.2. Initial position 4.3. Final position 4.4. Unstressed prefixes 4.5. Unstressed suffixes 5. Conclusion: Contrast of the English and French schwa sound Bibliography