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English citations of schwar
- 2013 — Eleanor Lawson, James M Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith. Bunched /r/ promotes vowel merger to schwar: An ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish sociophonetic variation. Journal of Phonetics (41: 3,4) pp189-210. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00954470/41/3
- Phonologically, our view is that middle-class speakers of Scottish English have reduced the V+/r/ sequence to one segment; either a rhoticised vowel /ɚ/ or a syllabic rhotic /r/. ... Schwar-type vowels, typically produced by middle-class informants, will ... have F2 and F3 close to one another, ... due to the lowering effect rhoticisation has on F3.