The Schwa. This tiny, reduced vowel is most commonly heard in English. And guess what, there is no written symbol for it in the English alphabet. It can be represented by any vowel.
Look at these three camiseta mujer words
cabage.......cotton........sentence
In these
That is because one syllable is stressed and one is not. The vowel that is in the stressed syllable receives its "full" pronunciation. It is longer and louder then the vowel in the unstressed syllable. In fact the vowel from the camiseta mujer unstressed syllable is reduced to the schwa sound.
So in those examples the schwa sound is represented by an a, o, and an e. In the following examples the schwa is underlined
atlas
palace
illness
purpose
minute
canoe
machine
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