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Tag: diction

Handy resource for IPA and Foreign Languages
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Handy resource for IPA and Foreign Languages

  • Posted on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018
  • by Brian Lee

Lexilogos is a simple but incredibly useful site for copying and pasting characters that don’t appear on most keyboards. I was looking for a place to grab IPA characters such…

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Nasal “OO” and Other Diction Trends in Popular Music
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Nasal “OO” and Other Diction Trends in Popular Music

  • Posted on April 30, 2018October 12, 2018
  • by Brian Lee

Over the last decade I have noticed some diction trends in popular music that are peculiar, given the sounds of American English. Look up “hip singing” on Youtube and watch…

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Interruptors of the vocal flow?

  • Posted on November 11, 2015January 27, 2016
  • by Brian Lee

B C D F G H J K L M N P S T V Z These are the suspects! When a passage has the consonants removed, the singer usually…

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Diction and codas

  • Posted on August 21, 2015January 27, 2016
  • by Brian Lee

In general I am a fan of the “pure vowel”. All of the basic vowels of most Western languages are intelligible up to F5, but from about F#5 and higher,…

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