The author, a voice coach, explains techniques one can use to develop a more powerful speaking or singing voice, and includes breathing exercises and practice routines.

Product Description: Tongue twisters are usually a set of words arranged in a particular way so as to make the movement of tongue, jaws and lips, making it difficult to read. Very often tongue twisters might end up in mispronunciations, confusions and mistakes by the speaker which will make the listeners giggle...read more

Product Description: How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if” forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision...read more

Product Description: Although the study of phonetics numbers more disciples in England than Dr Sweet seems to think he stands so indisputably above all other phonetists in this country that it would be almost presumptuous to comment on the great learning and accurate observation which have been lavished upon this book Still as Dr Sweet has definitely stated the object of his work we are bound to ask ourselves how far his intentions have been fulfilled This book is intended to supply the double want of a new edition of my Handbook of Phonetics and of a concise introduction to phonetics with especial reference to English Such are the words with which Dr Sweet begins his preface We should rather have called it an attempt to construct a practical phonetic alphabet with examples of its application to English c For this purpose Dr Sweet takes Bell s system as the groundwork and hence forms a number of more or less conventionalized symbols to which are added diacritics quant suff Six pages are devoted to Introduction which combines hints to beginners with a justification of the spelling reformers then follow 34 pages of Analysis in which the symbols are assigned to their respective sounds and thirteen sets of diacritics given by which they may be modified The next 30 pages are taken up with Synthesis in which the elaborate and difficult subject of glides is treated and seven fresh sets of diacritics are introduced Then 40 pages give the special sound systems of English French German Latin and Greek with illustrative passages and the book ends with a table of symbols On comparing this volume with the Handbook of Phonetics a great improvement must be recognized the notation which was there employed was unsatisfactory and many serious if not very obvious mistakes were admitted Most of the latter have disappeared and the new notation avoids many disadvantages of the old At the same time much has been sacrificed for the diminution in space whi...read more

Product Description: We heartily recommend this scholarly little book to the notice of everyone who takes an intelligent interest in the English language and who wants a clear and systematic account of our language as it is spoken at the present day The book before us small as it is is well worthy of attention as it is a first attempt to bring before the intellectual consciousness of Englishmen the phonetic character of the language they are speaking and hearing every day of their lives In this respect it may be said to be an epoch making book There are scores of Spelling Books Accidences Grammars and other Philological Works treating of the English language as it exists on the written page but this is the very first book which attempts to give the plain ordinarily educated Englishman without unnecessary technical detail an absolutely faithful picture a phonetic photograph of our language as it is now spoken by educated people In 1886 the Clarendon Press published Mr Sweet s Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch a work intended mainly as its title implied for the instruction of the German student And now at last we may welcome an English Primer on the same subject so that we may really hope soon to know almost as much about the language we speak as any average German doctor of philosophy The Elementarbuch has met with well deserved success in Germany and we have reason for believing that in that country it is universally held to be an unimpeachable authority on the subject it deals with We have no doubt that in time the Primer will meet with like success in England Before long it will be admitted by scholars that we have here a scientifically satisfactory analysis of the sounds of every day English Still we must confess that we should not be surprised to find that to many this book will be at first a rock of offence that to many the facts recorded will come at the first blush as a strange and painful and most unwelcome revelation Many will fiercely ...read more

An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. THE processes of speech are mechanical, but they are intimately associated with mental operations. Sometimes the mechanical processes are mismanaged, and sometimes the intellectual associations are-imperfect. In the latter case, expression is tardy or inexact; in the former, utterance is interrupted or vitiated. The two kinds of defect may be combined, or either may exist separately. Stammering, stuttering, etc. are, for the most part, mechanical defects; drawling, hemming, and—uh — uh—hesitation are, in great measure, faults of the intellect. The observations in this work will have reference to failures in the mechanical execution of speech. The fact that "everybody speaks," and yet not one person in a thousand knows how he speaks; and that children talk the language of their nurses — be it English, French, German, Italian, Indian, Patois, or whatever else —proves that language is normally acquired by imitation. A child imitates with more or less accuracy the general effect of the sounds it hears; but, in doing so, makes many substitutions of easier for more difficult actions of the organs of speech. The lips and the forepart of the tongue are the first of the articulating organs to be brought into use; and "turn," "tat" and "tate" in most cases satisfy the child's apprehension of the words "come," "cat" and "cake." The action of the back of the tongue is often not acquired for years. Infantile defects arc unwisely encouraged by parents, who—with the requisite knowledge—might enable their children to pronounce correctly as soon as they begin to prattle at all. There can be no doubt that the most serious blemishes and impediments arise from parental neglect—or rather ignorance—in this respect. When a child says "turn" for "come," and "tin" for "king," the correct articulation will be induced almost at the first trial by the simple expedient of holding down the forepart of the tongue with the finger. The effort to imitate the general effect will then force the back of the tongue into action; and in a few days at most, the child will, without any assistance, form k, g and ng where before it could only utter t, d and n. The "shut" consonants (p, t, k, b, d,g) are the most easily acquired, and children consequently pronounce p instead of the more difficult f, and t instead of th. A few minutes devoted to amusing exercise will conquer this difficulty. Thus: tell the child to bite his lower lip, and blow, and he will form a tolerable f at once; or to bite his tongue, and blow, and a passable th will be the result. The sounds of s and sh are often for a long time confounded; also those of s and th. The sound of s will be obtained from th by drawing back—or, if assistance is needed, by pushing back—the tip of the tongue till it is free from the teeth. The teeth require to be very close for s, but there will be room to insert the edge of a paper-cutter to play the tongue into position. The sound of sh will be obtained from s by drawing—or pushing—back the body of the tongue till it is free from the gum. The sibilation of sh is formed between the middle of the tongue and the palate, modified by a degree of elevation of the point of the tongue also: that of s is formed between the point of the tongue and the upper gum, modified by a degree of convexity of the middle of the tongue: and that of th is formed between the tip of the tongue and the upper teeth, with the edges of the tongue flattened against the side teeth to obstruct the breath at all points but the tip....

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