Table 5 Schwa sounds of the test words

Test word	IPA
Apartment	/əpɑrtmənt/
Available	/əveɪləbəl/
California	/kæləfɔrnjə/
Department store	/dɪpɑrtmənt stɔr/
Elevator	/eləveɪtɚ/
Experience	/ɪskpɪriəns/
Hospital	/hɑspɪtəl/
Information	/ɪnfɚmeɪʃən/
Japanese	/dʒæpəniz/
Misunderstand	/mɪsəndɚstænd/
Tomorrow	/təmɑroʊ/

The other 9 words lack non-rhotic schwa (afternoon, January, money, morning, overnight, supermarket, video, Vietnamese and white wine). The phonetic transcriptions are based on the ones of J-AESOP corpus.