Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:04:39 -0500
From:  Alan Baragona <baragonasa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VAX.VMI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Phonetic transcription--help

Thanks to Johanna, Stanley, Garland, and Donald for the phonetic
guidance. Following your descriptions, as I look at the detailed IPA
chart on the flyleaf of Pyles/Algeo, I see that fronted open [a] just
below [ae], and I think that must be the notation I'm looking for.
Stanley's barred-i doesn't seem to be on the chart, though there is the
hight central barred small <i>. But in the textbook they describe that
as a rounded sound between the [I] in <gist> and the open [E] in jest
that appears in some dialects in the adverb <just> and <children> (it's
beside a barred-u, which makes sense given their description but which
doesn't sound like what Stanley was talking about). In any case, I can
now give my Texan a way to approximate some of her own speech in IPA
instead of sounding like a Rumanian who learned English in Texas.

This sort of discussion would be a lot easier with voice-e-mail,
wouldn't it?

Alan B.