Clear Speech: Practical Speech Correction and Voice Improvement

✍ Scribed by Malcolm Morrison

• Publisher: A & C Black
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 90
• Edition: Fourth
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives clear guidance to good pronunciation and is written in an easily-accessible form. Many people can identify and solve their speech problems and significantly improve their voice by using tried and tested exercises. The systematic arrangement of the material with clear illustrations makes it easy for the layman to understand and work from effectively. This new edition contains additional exercises as well as an expanded chapter on Indistinct Speech.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Using this Book......Page 10
Speech as a Habit......Page 13
The Nature and Analysis of Faults......Page 14
Analysis of faults......Page 15
Attitude to correction......Page 16
Principles of correction......Page 17
Relaxation......Page 19
Exercises......Page 20
Common faults......Page 23
Recommended standing position......Page 24
Exercises to improve general posture......Page 25
Recommended methods......Page 26
Main faults......Page 27
Exercises for breathing......Page 28
Exercises for capacity and control......Page 29
Exercises for power......Page 33
Practice material for breathing and phrasing......Page 34
Main faults......Page 37
Exercises......Page 38
Practice pieces......Page 39
Correction......Page 42
Balanced use of the resonators......Page 45
Exercises......Page 46
Routines for Establishment of Forward Placing of the Voice......Page 49
Introductory......Page 54
The English R Sound......Page 56
Main faults......Page 57
Exercises......Page 58
Forming R......Page 59
Sentences to practise R......Page 61
The S Sound......Page 62
Correction......Page 63
Forming S......Page 64
Sentences to practise S......Page 67
Clear and Dark L......Page 68
Correction......Page 69
Exercises......Page 70
Practice words......Page 71
Sentences......Page 72
Main faults......Page 73
Practice words......Page 74
Sentences......Page 75
Main faults......Page 76
Correction......Page 77
Exercises......Page 78
Exercises for the lips......Page 81
Exercises for the soft palate and back of the tongue......Page 82
Consonant exercises......Page 83
Exercises for general agility of the organs of speech......Page 84
Note to Teachers......Page 88

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Фонетика / English Phonology and Phonetics;