dialect change?

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, see my reference to Trudgill, in an earlier note.  The same surely
applies here.  And Elvis did it too, didn't he?

At 01:35 AM 11/1/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Is this phenomenon related in any way to, for example, how many white
>contestants on 'American Idol' adopt the "black sound" when they
>sing, yet do not "talk black" when interviewed?
>
>
>--- Duane Campbell <dcamp911 at JUNO.COM> wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:27:53 -0500 joshua <nerd_core at EXCITE.COM>
> > writes:
> >
> > > when people sing, they pronounce words differently (they drop
> > > consonants, substitute phonemes, etc.)  doing this isn't
> > technically
> > > a dialect change, so what would we call it?
> >
> > Not directly on point, but related.
> >
> > Back in the 50s and 60s, Fred Waring (actually it was probably Roy
> > Ringwald, his arranger) developed a phonetic notation for lyrics
> > for
> > choral music. All the published Fred Waring sheet music had the
> > regular
> > lyrics, but printed below them was a phonetic version.
> >
> > Anyway, if it is a dialect, it has a formal written form.
> >
> > D
>
>
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