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Help[Opinions] Nope . . .
in reply to a message by LuzDeTuVida
Some might, some might not . . . that depends more on the level of education and cultural background, than on the Australian accent itself. I'd always say it AHN.
An Australian accent tends to turn more vowels into schwas than other languages, and they're very short schwas, so Jacob, in which the 'o' is a schwa, ends up sounding something like JAY-k'b. The schwa is barely even pronounced. This makes some names that sound lovely in one's head come out as ugly and clipped.
An Australian accent tends to turn more vowels into schwas than other languages, and they're very short schwas, so Jacob, in which the 'o' is a schwa, ends up sounding something like JAY-k'b. The schwa is barely even pronounced. This makes some names that sound lovely in one's head come out as ugly and clipped.
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When I was in an English phonology class (NAE), I said that in words that end in -er, -el, and sometimes -en, I can't hear the schwa either. I know that in Czech there are words that don't have vowels, so maybe in my region with Slavic heritage, we lost some of the schwas. Also, in some words with 2 schwas in a row, we drop one of them and make the word one syllable shorter.
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