dialect change?

[Margaret Lee]

Is this phenomenom 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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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
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