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/ə/ in a stressed syllable?

According to this description of the English phonotactics, the schwa /ə/ doesn't occur in stressed syllables. But Cambridge Dictionary Onlines, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and Longman Pronunc …
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/ɪə/, /eə/, /ʊə/ as phonemes?

From what I understand on phonetics/phonology, /ɪə/, /eə/, /ʊə/ can simply be considered as allophones of /ɪr/, /er/, /ʊr/, but most traditional dictionaries treat them as distinct phonemes. …
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Is there any Saxon word that contains /ʒ/?

Is there any Saxon (native) word that contains /ʒ/? All words containing that sound I can think of such as genre, garage, luge, vision, visual, etc. are from French.
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How phonetically distinct in terms of quality (tongue gesture) are /ɜː/ and /ə/ in Received ...

I'd even venture that there's simply no point in teaching these two "phonemes" to my ESL students, because I myself, as reasonably competent in the field of phonetics as I'd like to believe, don't know … if they truly are phonemes or not, or rather, allophones in free variation in unstressed syllables. …
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