Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 15:04 |
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* Mark J. Reed said on 2006-06-13 16:15:02 +0200
/snip tale of discovery and woe/
> Ultimately, what I'd like to do is learn the IPA sounds in a reliable
> manner. Listening to sound files just doesn't work for me; I want to
> know how to produce them reliably. Any tips? Any chance of finding
> someone who can do it and studying at their feet?
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.
Then be prepared to practice, a lot, preferrably somewhere noone else
can hear you exercise muscles and floppy bits in your mouth and throat
that you didn't know existed. Do check that you learn more than just
"how to soundwrite English" though, and having a teacher that had a
teacher that had a teacher that... had IIRC Daniel Jones as a teacher of
the vowels. Any student of Peter Ladefoged will do :)
t.
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