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From:  "Vale [^_^]" <valevanni@m...>
"Vale [^_^]" <valevanni@m...>
Date:  Thu Jan 25, 2001  8:08 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] More on registers-exercises, laden with opinions


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:49:43
Gina wrote:
>
>
>I will use Italian vowels for these exercises. I don't have any IPA
>fonts on my system.
>/i/ would sound like the stressed vowel in the italian word io and >the vowel
in the English words feet, street, greet
>/e/ sounds like segno or the first vowel in the English words fate,
>hate, gate, hey
>/E/ sounds like petto or wet, get, bet, set
>/a/ sounds like Amarilli or father
>/o/ sounds like dove or boat, goat, moat
>/O/ sounds like orribile or cough, upon, awesome
>/u/ sounds like muto or truth, fruit, through
>
In Italian, "orribile" has /o/, like "dove".
/O/ is, for example, in "cosa", "roba"; in "sonoro" you can find both
(s/o/n/O/r/o/)


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