Either the first or last vowel sound in "Alaska"

• Sound heard twice in "Aruba"
• Stress-free sound symbol
• Sound in the middle of Italy?
• "Long Island" sound
• Neutral vowel sound indicator
• Unstressed midcentral vowel
• One's at either end of Alaska
• Dull sound

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: shwa ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "'''a'''bout", represented as /ə/ in IPA and /@/ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA. 2 The character ə, an upside-down, backwards, lower-case E