Voice and Articulation

by Crannell, Kenneth C.

• ISBN13: 9780534523541
• ISBN10: 0534523544
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-07
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This text offers students a chance to both learn and do. First, students read to discover how their vocal apparatus works and find ways to recognize a variety of speech patterns. Then, as they practice with the numerous and varied exercises provided in the text, they develop the skills needed for personal and professional success.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
I VOICE	1	(82)
Motivation And Expectation	3	(14)
Habit and Nature	4	(2)
Communication Apprehension	6	(2)
Prepare ... Prepare ... Prepare	8	(1)
Stages of Development	8	(2)
Vocal and Verbal Recidivism	10	(1)
Visualization	11	(1)
Negative Practice	11	(1)
Appropriateness	11	(6)
Breathing	17	(18)
Types of Breathing	18	(1)
The Anatomy of Respiration	18	(2)
Making Use of a Natural Process	20	(1)
The Pathway of Breath	21	(1)
Visualizing Breathing	22	(2)
Diaphragmatic Breathing for Speech	24	(7)
Breathiness	31	(4)
The Voice	35	(9)
Structure of the Larynx	36	(4)
Sound Production	40	(4)
Vocal Relaxation	44	(19)
Open Throat	45	(8)
Projection	53	(5)
Pitch	58	(5)
Common Voice Problems	63	(20)
Velar Problems	63	(5)
Assimilation Nasality	68	(4)
Excessive Vocal Tension	72	(11)
II SPEECH	83	(307)
The Production of Vowels	85	(49)
Sense Stimuli	86	(1)
Articulation	86	(1)
Vowels	87	(3)
Front Vowels	90	(9)
Review of Front Vowels	99	(2)
Central Vowels	101	(10)
Back Vowels	111	(10)
Diphthongs	121	(13)
The Production of Consonants	134	(54)
Consonant Classifications	137	(1)
Plosives	137	(9)
Fricatives	146	(8)
Fricative Sibilants	154	(4)
Lateral	158	(3)
Semivowels	161	(7)
Nasals	168	(9)
Syllabic Consonants	177	(7)
Three-Point Analyses of English Sounds	184	(4)
Pronunciation	188	(47)
Stress	188	(2)
Restressing	190	(1)
Misused Words	191	(1)
Assimilation	192	(7)
Explosion and Implosion	199	(9)
Syllable Omission and Addition	208	(1)
Anaptyxis	209	(1)
The Sneezing Error	210	(2)
Homographs	212	(1)
Metathesis and Haplology	213	(3)
Foreign Words	216	(1)
Frequently Mispronounced Words (1)	217	(1)
Frequently Mispronounced Words (2)	218	(1)
Tough Words to Pronounce	219	(16)
Vocal Dynamics	235	(33)
Stress	240	(8)
Slide	248	(4)
Pace or Tempo	252	(1)
Pause	253	(15)
Kinesics	268	(13)
Gesture	269	(1)
The ``When You Say It Don't Do It'' Principle	270	(4)
Countenance	274	(3)
Body Stance	277	(4)
Application to the Speech Occasion	281	(17)
Performance Occasions	282	(1)
Analysis of the Audience	282	(1)
The Introduction	283	(1)
Eye Contact	283	(1)
Motivated Movement (or the ``Frontal Assault'' versus ``Retrograde'')	284	(4)
Angles of Direction	288	(1)
Memorization versus Using Notes	289	(1)
Lecterns	290	(1)
Microphones	290	(1)
Rehearsal	291	(1)
Empathy	291	(1)
Taste	292	(6)
The Four Major Dialects of American English	298	(28)
New England	300	(7)
New York City	307	(7)
Standard Southern American English	314	(6)
General American	320	(6)
Stage Speech and Selected Foreign Accents	326	(64)
Standard Stage Speech	327	(4)
Cockney	331	(8)
Scottish	339	(5)
German	344	(9)
Spanish	353	(5)
Russian	358	(9)
APPENDIXES
A English Pronunciation For Asian-Language Speakers	367	(9)
Chinese	367	(4)
Japanese	371	(2)
Korean	373	(1)
Vietnamese	374	(2)
B News and Commercial Copy	376	(7)
C Voice and Speech Evaluation Forms	383	(7)
Glossary	390	(4)
Index of Names and Topics	394	(3)
Index of Authors and Selections	397