But that IS r-as-a-vowel!
John
At 2:02 PM -0700 4/30/07, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Good point ... Marshall uses "learn" as the vowel sound model.
Dean
On Apr 30, 2007, at 1:46 PM, John Howell wrote:
Well, I don't know IPA, but could you describe
what you mean by [3] by analogy with other
standard English words. Otherwise I can't tell
what you're suggesting.
John
At 12:38 PM -0700 4/30/07, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:24 PM, John Howell wrote:
Madeleine Marshall informs, "Never sing "r"
before a consonant. (p. 9) So, she would have
the singers pronounce bird as" b[3]d." I.e.,
she would maintain that the ONLY vowel in
said example is [3], and that the "r" sound
does not exist. This approach has worked
fine with all my choirs.
Dean
On the contrary, "r" IS a vowel, the ONLY
vowel in "girl," "bird," or "heard." (That
is to say, since it's easy to get tangled up
in semantics, it is a phonated sound that can
be sustained.) The written vowels are
effectively mute. It is a BETTER vowel
(better sound quality) if it is formed by
keeping the tongue low in the mouth and
lifting the two outside edges up to touch the
upper teeth, than if it is formed by raising
the middle of the tongue to the soft palate,
but it functions as a vowel, and if it quacks
like a duck, etc., etc.
John
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most
vexing bête noire on a quotidian basis, is
the cereal box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert
Tab Here ." Yeah, right! In attempting to
accomplish the first direction, not only the
tab but also the slit intended to accept the
aforementioned protuberance have both been
irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then
amplified by the misbehavior of the
recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be
unsealed sans mangling it, and hence, will
not disperse its contents without exiting
the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of
cereal.
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing
bête noire on a quotidian basis, is the cereal
box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert
Tab Here ." Yeah, right! In attempting to
accomplish the first direction, not only the
tab but also the slit intended to accept the
aforementioned protuberance have both been
irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified
by the misbehavior of the recalcitrant inner
bag, which can not be unsealed sans mangling
it, and hence, will not disperse its contents
without exiting the box itself. All I wanted
was a bowl of cereal.
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