In a message dated 12/5/00 11:26:18 AM Central Standard Time,
deanmacy@m... writes:
deanmacy@m... writes:
> Nay, nay. [I] is the IPA symbol for the SOUND of the spoken "ee" as defined
> by the British.
>
> It's a whole new ballgame when SINGING vowels.
>
> And children don't care to know about how to represent phonetics. Neither
> do
> I anymore.
>
>
That may be so as the registers change but not it the chest voice where the
vowels are produced as in speech. The attempt to alter these postures is a
big cause of confusion and tension and is severely misguided.
As far as /i/ being the sound of ee produced by the British, where did you
get that. It is the INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET after all and is a
system to transcribe phonemes regardless of origin.
Randy Buescher
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