Re: Perfect Pitch

Y'know, I've always wondered about /a/ myself.   I hope some other listers
take sides on this issue;   I haven't heard the authorities speak on the
'low back' vs. 'low central' issue either.

Jim



----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch


I supposedly have perfect pitch too.  And what am I doing with my life?

Anyway, I have been able to hear differences in phonetics, even though
for most of my life, it just sounded like a speech error.  Like my
close friend's grandmother.  She pronounced "else" with a retroflex
/s/, kinda like Sean Connery does.  I just thought it was a
phonetically harsh "sh".

I just wish phoneticists would decide whether [a] is low back unrounded
or low central unrounded.  If there's much of a difference...

DaW.

--- Jim Grossmann <steven@...> wrote:
> Good musicianship doesn't require perfect (absolute) pitch.   There
> are some
> great singers out there who have only relative pitch.  That's what
> pitch
> pipes are for.
>
> Jim
>
>
> > You apparently have not endured an evening in a Chinese karaoke
> parlor. :)
> >
> > Kou
> >

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