Articulation

Smooth flowing speech or

Sludgy contaminated speech…

What emotion can you make with your voice?

What emotions do you hear in the following voices?

Shrek

What emotion can you make with your voice?

Pick an emotion that you can create with your voice

What Did You Observe?

SODA

Substitution Omission Distortion Addition

Have you met…

What causes this speech?

Laziness Nervous tension Apathy Problems with health Hearing loss Environment Only 3 in 100 people have

good or superior articulation

Sloppiness vs. Artificiality

Speech needs to sound real and unforced

Neither undercooked or overcooked Articulation should seem natural and not

like you are trying too hard

A Smooth Blend

Assimilation

Helps to make sounds and sound combinations easier to pronounce

It facilitates the various movements of the articulators

It is when your overlapping or assimilation is to the extreme then we get…

WAASAP?

Articulation

Means joined So it is natural to join or link your words

smoothly It is when it is incomprehensible that it

becomes a problem

Movements

Lips- pout & protrude/squeeze & relax Front teeth (“Say, Velma, cook the veal

thoroughly.”) Lower Jaw Tongue (variable positions)

Think, These, Bust, Buzz, Fool, Show Velum- soft palate

Exercises for the Articulators

In your groups, practice these tips on pages 68-69

Make notice of each other’s movements

Sound Families

Consonants Vowels Diphthongs

Consonants

Separate vowel sounds Obstruct breathing-Closed Sounds The backbone of modern language 65% of all sounds are consonants

Therefore problems and defects involve more consonants then vowels

Movement of our articulators helps to create smooth consonant sounds

Vowels

No obstruction in breath stream Open mouth sounds Vowels are the flesh and blood of

sounds Provide emotion

Diphthongs

A rapid blending together of two separate vowel sounds within the same syllable

Problems involving dialects involve vowels and diphthongs

Try this sentence…

Gear and tear but wear and tear…Meat and feat, but sweat and great. That last word rhymes with freight and weight. Quite different again is height which sounds like bite, indict, and light… crew and blew and few, but sew, cow and row…

Consonants

Voiced or unvoiced Unvoiced- vocal folds are at rest Voiced- vocal folds are vibrating

26- No not Championships

26 Letters, but 50 different sounds 43 of them are represented by the

International Phonetic Alphabet 18 are vowels and diphthongs

Phonetics

The study of the sounds of spoken language

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is universal

Each symbol in IPA represents a phoneme A basic unite or sound family

[Phonetic Symbol]

K vs. [k] I can open a can of beans Allophone- variation of a phoneme The Phoneme is a family of sounds

IPA Has Usefulness in Developing More Awareness of Speech

Helps to distinguish all the sounds of spoken English Eartraining tool

Associate symbols with actual movements of the speech mechanism

Solves the problem created by English spelling; provides a symbol for each sound

Dialects

Can differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar Florida Sack or Bag I be going, I am going

Regional Dialects

Here are the regional dialects Eastern (sub dialect NY Metro) New England Southern General American

The Word “Car”

Standard vs. Nonstandard Speech Standard- Language of the majority of

educational people in the region Non-standard- different pronunciation

Quincy The standard of the area usually carries

more prestige for the speaker simply because it reflects the way well-educated speak

Consonants

Classified by three factors Voicing (voiced or unvoiced) Place of articulation Method of articulation

Voicing

Gently rest fingers on either side of your thyroid or Adam’s Apple Hum Say vat Say fat

Place of Articulation

Physical place of the articulation Bilabial (both lips) Labiodental (lip-teeth) Lingua-dental (tongue-teeth) Lingua-alveolar (tongue-gum ridge) Lingua-alveolo/palatal (tongue-gum ridge/palate Lingua-palatal (tongue-palate) Lingua-velar (tongue-soft palate) Glottal (the space between the vocal folds)

Pet (bilabial sound-both lips needed to say the word)

Method of Articulation

Plosives Fricatives Nasals Glides Lateral sounds Affricates

Plosives

Stops- briefly blocking the air and building up pressure

Six of them p, t, k b, d, g PET

Fricatives

Squeezes out some air through a narrow opening f, v th, th s, z sh, zh, h SEE

Nasals

Block oral cavity with the lips or tongue and by lowering your soft palate

Air goes out your nostrils m n ng MAN

Glides

Consonant sounds you make while you are moving your articulators from one position to the other hw (where, which, why) w (watch, wear, weather) r y (onion, yes, yellow)

Lateral

Drop the sides of the tongue and allowing air to leave from the sides of the mouth l lull

Affricates

Consonant combinations They can be voiced or unvoiced

combinations Voiceless plosive, voiceless fricative Voiced plosive, voiced fricative

ch (chair, each) j (judge, Jane, wage)

Vowels

What are the vowels? How do they sound? Speech sounds produced without

obstruction of the breath stream Classification

Height of tongue Place of production Muscle tension

Height of Tongue

See Saw

“e”

Pet, few, sew, eye women, mete, serve, sergeant and Jones

All different pronunciations of “e”

Place of Production & Muscle Tension Part of tongue responsible for producing

the vowel sound Front Middle Back

Tension of the muscle of the larynx changes the vowel sound See Sit

Diphthongs

Vowel blend Begins with one vowel and ends with the

other The result is one sound TIME

Study

Look over pages 72-73 Be able to distinguish these symbols and

write a sentence using them to help you pronounce the letters correctly.

We will share our sentences in class next time

Your “Elevator” Pitch

You bump into a person with whom you would like to network What do you say?

Read the Elevator Speech article on the sidebar of the blog

Be prepared to speak starting the week of April 6th