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From:  "Caio Rossi" <caioross@z...>
Date:  Sun Apr 9, 2000  2:02 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Bel Canto technique...


Christine wrote:

>Okay, then you mean [j] is the symbol for "y". Putting [y] in brackets
means
>that it is the IPA symbol ...

No, Christine. I wrote: '[j] is the IPA symbol for [y], which is used by
many English- speaking linguists and belongs to a system named EPD-14 (after
the *14*th edition of Jones's *E*nglish *P*ronunciation *D*ictionary ). '

That is: [j] and [y] are phonetic symbols for the same sound, but in
different systems ( IPA and EPD-14 and some others ). If Alan didn't mean
the symbol, but the letter, so he shouldn't have written: ' I cannot find
any reason why a [y] (French "u" or German "ü") ...' He put it in brackets,
though I have to confess I think phonetic symbols are written between
slashes only.

Bye,
Caio



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