Pronunciation and Phonetics by Brown Adam

Author:Brown, Adam
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-317-93568-1
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Summary

• Voice quality refers to long-term positions and states of the various vocal organs: lips, jaw, tongue, velum, vocal cords, as well as tension, pitch and loudness.

• Voice quality may characterize individuals, and may be used to convey attitudes, but may also be characteristic of different languages and different accents of languages.

• Since voice quality underlies all the segments of a language, teachers may improve segmental pronunciation by first concentrating on voice quality.

Exercises

1. Name someone you know who habitually uses:

• nasal voice

• harsh voice

• whispery voice

• a large pitch range

• protruded lips

• a close jaw.

2. Think of any language, other than English, that you know well. Can you describe the typical settings of speakers of that language? Think of lip and jaw settings, tongue position, nasality, vocal cord settings, tension and pitch settings.

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