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how can a ‘stressed schwa’ exist? In ‘Applied English Phonology 3rd edition’ (page 85), ‘herder’ is the example of the stressed schwa and it is manifested as ‘3’(with r-coloring tail). As I’ve seen so far, a schwa is so light that the syllable containing it cannot be stressed despite the following coda. Thank you

Whisney
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  • which syllable does it list as stressed schwa, the first or the second? And American or British Pronunciation? – katatahito Jun 26 '19 at 06:43
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    ‘herder’ has stress on the first syllable. And we may infer that it is American judging from ‘r-coloring’ – Whisney Jun 26 '19 at 06:51
  • https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/26928/is-a-schwa-ever-stressed might be helpful, but focuses on britsh accent's potential use of stressed schwa. I would also add that "murder", "third", "turd", "burn", "urn" etc. to your list – katatahito Jun 26 '19 at 07:05

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