>From: Irina Rempt <ira@...>
>On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Edward Heil wrote:
>
>> A *really* good book on this stuff is _A Practical Introduction to
>> Phonetics_. You can order it from my web site,
>>
http://members.xoom.com/edheil/bookstore.html, in association with
>> amazon.com. (And I'll get like a dime or something if you order it!)
>
>How technical is it? I'm asking on behalf of someone in the church
>choir (that I'm also in) who wants to know more about vowel formants
>and things like that, now I've told him all I know. He can read
>English adequately but not extremely well, but convoluted physics
>will not bother him much as he's a high-school physics teacher.