The Improvement of Voice and Diction

abdominal activity ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE American American-English speech articulation articulatory position assimilated avoid back vowel become blend breath stream cartilage cavity resonance diaphragm dictionary differences diphthong effective English excessive nasality exercises exhalation feeling FIGURE final following sentences force frequently fricative front vowel glottal gum ridge H. L. Mencken habitual pitch hear heard individual inhalation language larynx letter lips listener loudness lower manner of articulation Medial mouth muscles nasal cavity nasal consonants nasal sounds normal optimum pitch oral cavity pause persons pharynx phonetic phrase pitch level pitch range Practice Materials Initial produced pronounced pronunciation reinforcement relaxed Repeat resonance result Selections soft palate speak speaker spelling stress symbols tense tension thought throat tion tongue tip trachea unstressed syllables upper utterance variation velar velar nasal vibration vocal bands vocal efforts vocal tones voice and diction voiceless WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE