Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

* Mark J. Reed said on 2006-06-13 17:37:47 +0200
> On 6/13/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> >If you have time for a class at university/college, look for
> >"Introduction to phonetics"-classes or "Introduction to articulatory
> >phonetics"-classes, or classes for speech therapists.
>
> A good thought.  I took an introductory linguistics class when I was
> in college, but it was light on the articulatory phonetics.  Speech
> therapists didn't occur to me at all... but they would seem less
> interested in producing weird sounds than in recognizing them. :)
Not only must they recognize a sound, they must be able to show and help
people who can't produce a sound to produce it, or else it wouldn't be
speech *therapy*. Where's Dan Sulani when we need him :) Anyway, my
phonetics prof. said that usually, most of his students went on to
become speech therapists, not phoneticists.


t.