Oh, such confusion. I learned two different versions of the IPA in college (I don't know how you have different versions of an international alphabet with its own association, but somehow it happened). The problem is, the one I know best is not the one they're using here (I have my suspicions that it was actually a fake IPA used only for teaching diction in English, but I could be wrong) and now I am struggling to unlearn that system and learn the symbols that they're using in my classes here to represent the sounds that we're dealing with. Really I learned the real IPA for linguistics in college, but Dr. Wildeman wasn't half so stubborn about us knowing the symbols as my Voice and Diction professor was. For the next few weeks I'm sure I will be going around muttering fricatives and plosives under my breath, trying to tell the difference between a retroflex and a palatal, since I need to know this stuff for both Phonetics and Phonology. Sounds, they're all we have to go on.
Posted by linnea at June 13, 2006 5:40 PMOh, IPA. I write love notes in IPA.
Posted by: laura at June 17, 2006 6:35 PMMy favorite is the labial mute.
Posted by: Jeannette at June 18, 2006 10:10 PM