Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany French nursery rhyme
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Thanks for the link, Bean. It figures they're Norske.
I made a similar list/chart for my masters thesis for the American vowels I've encountered teaching and composing for vocalists. The object was to refine sung vowel sounds as they often obfuscate understanding of the words for the listener. One of the issues approached was that the muscle tension in a vocalists jaw increases dramatically with specific vowels, and to avoid this, vowel pronunciation started "rounding off" (ie. begin sound alike) and lose the minor distinctions that languages (like Norwegian's vowels) have developed.
The only way I could represent the sounds acurately for the student was to listen to the individual speak and find their representative word with the desired sound. This goes a lot toward personalizing success and was an interesting study in dialects and pronunciation. The final *product, however, had to be written with words as I pronounce them, of course.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted French nursery rhyme Clyde Gittins 04/18/02 12:04 PM Re: French nursery rhyme Faldage 04/18/02 02:17 PM Re: French nursery rhyme Bean 04/18/02 02:27 PM Re: IPA slithy toves 04/18/02 03:26 PM Re: IPA tsuwm 04/18/02 06:47 PM . Max Quordlepleen 04/21/02 05:28 AM Re: IPA AnnaStrophic 04/21/02 06:27 PM Nursing Sound musick 04/21/02 05:01 PM Re: Nursing Sound maverick 04/21/02 10:22 PM Re: French nursery rhyme hev 04/22/02 05:59 AM . Max Quordlepleen 04/22/02 08:01 AM Re: French nursery rhyme Keiva 04/22/02 01:48 PM Re: French nursery rhyme hev 04/23/02 01:01 AM . Max Quordlepleen 04/23/02 02:13 AM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,350Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 845 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 22ddrinnan 1
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,549tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,918Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org