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Voice & Diction
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Undergraduate 1
03/25/2007

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Affected Speech
Definition
Spoken or vocal characteristics that are not yet habitual. Any deviation or change in current speech and voice habits will deem affected; once such changes have been developed they seem "natural"
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Articulation
Definition
The production of sounds-namely vowels dipthongs and consonants
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Inflection
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A vocal technique that brings attention to thoughts and ideas through variations of pitch. These changes of stress, tempo, and pitch ocurr without speech interruption and support, enhance, reflect, and amplify meaning.
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Mimesis
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Imatation
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Oral Recidivism
Definition
The tendency to replace into a previous condition or mode of oral behavior
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Phoneme
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A sound family that conveys meaning within languages; the individual sound components of a word. The smallest unit of recognizable speech
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Pitch
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A factor of sound related to frequency, or the number of vibrations per unit of time. The perception of the highs and lows of a sound.
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Quality
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A factor of sound determined by the complexity of vibrations per unit of time. The subjective interpretation of sound determined by the complexity of the vibration; The amplification of the partials- the overtones that individualize a voice.
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Speech
Definition
The result of the production, combination, and presentation of the individual components of vocal sound
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Volume
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The amount of force or energy applied to the profuction of the vocal sound; sound intensity shown by sound waves
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Clavicular Breathing
Definition
Breathing while raising and lowering your shoulders
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Intercostal Muscles
Definition
Muscles located between the ribs; When contracted they elevate the rib cage
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Phonation
Definition
The sound made by the vibrations of your vocal folds
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Resonance
Definition
Process that amplifies and modifies the intesity of tone. Amplificaton occurs in the cavaties in your mouth, nost and throat because of either forced/sympathetic vibration. In other words, the fundamental tone produced at the vocal folds is "re-sounded" within these cavaties.
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Viscera
Definition
The soft digestive organs in the abdomen
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Vocal folds
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Folds of muscle located with the larynx tha, when vibrated cause most of the sounds of speech
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Fundamental tone
Definition
The sound produced by the vibration of the vocal folds as a wole unit
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Partials
Definition
Partials give the voice its particular quality and are usually higher in pitch than the fundamental tone
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Rate
Definition
The amount of time that is given to a speech utterance as well as silences. How quickly or slowly speech is produced
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Ventricular Bands
Definition
The false vocal folds that grow just above the true vocal folds
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Vocal process
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The projection of an aryteniod to which the bac portion of the vocal fold is attached
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Diction
Definition
The choice and use of words
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Kinesthesis
Definition
The sensory perception of muscular movement
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Projection
Definition
The act of controlling loudness
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Assimilation
Definition
The influence of one speech sound on another
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Denasality
Definition
A vocal quality characterized by insufficient nasal resonance
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Singer Nodes
Definition
Small growths on the vocal folds due to vocal strain
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Strident
Definition
A quality of voice characterized by harshness and high pitch
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Vocal Fry
Definition
A quality of voice characterized by scratchy sound, usually characterized by poor breathing habits and characterized by excessive opening and closing of the glottis during phonation
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Articulation
Definition
The production of sounds- namely, vowels, diphtongs, and consonants
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Affricate`
Definition
A speech sound composed of a plosive followed by a fricative
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Aspirate
Definition
A sound composed predominatly of breath
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Diadochokineses
Definition
The ability to produce difficult sound combinations with rapidity and precision
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Fricitive
Definition
A speech sound in which breath or sounds waves pass though a narrow opening in the oral cavity, creating frictional noises
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Anaptyxis
Definition
Sometimes speakers produce an additional vowel between two consonants Example: triathlon /triathOlon
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Assimilation
Definition
The influence of one speech sound on another
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Biblabial
Definition
Pertaining to the two lips
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Dentalization
Definition
The erroneous use of the teeth in the production of sounds
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Explosion
Definition
The release of impounded breath in the production of a plosive
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Haplology
Definition
A linguistic error in which a repeated sound or syllable is omitted
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Homograph
Definition
One of 2 or more words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning, pronounciation and derivation
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Stress
Definition
The amount of intensity given to a sounds
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Metathesis
Definition
A error in which sounds are reversed in the pronunciation of words
Example:
strategy and stragety
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Restressing
Definition
The changing of a vowel due to a change in stress
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Spoonerism
Definition
The transposition of sounds in different words
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Pronunciation
Definition
The combination of vowels, consonants, and dipthongs to form words
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Kinematics
Definition
The study of pure motion w/o references to the masses or forces involved in it
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Kinesensic
Definition
The neurophysical feeling process; it refers to intrinsic, "self to self" sensation, perception and response
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Kinesics
Definition
The study of body motion related to speech and voice
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Kinesthetics
Definition
The study of the physical sensation of position, movement, tension, and stress perceived through nerve and orans in muscles, tendons & joints
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Kinetics
Definition
The study of any action energy or dynamic resulting from movement
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aesthetics
Definition
Having a sense of the beautiful characterized by a love of beuty
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esthetic
Definition
intrisnic component of the feeling process...anything in the body that promotes sensitivity and induces awareness of sensation and perception in the body
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inner harmonic sensing
Definition
Represents the internal production of overtones or partials as a carry over from the outer fundamental senses. We search to discover the feel of these harmonic overtones through the experiencing systems of our own body NRG states and body esthetics
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Organic instructions
Definition
The search and use holistic unifiers to reduce complexity; a conscious capacity to perceive the body in motion- a first step in the self-teaching process of identifying sensation, acquiring perceptions, responding to awareness, and through inner harmonic sensing, training oneself to use these feelings and their memoty images as organic directions for the body
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salutary
Definition
Favorable to or promoting good health; promotoing or conducive to some beneficial purpose; whole-some
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Behavior- affective
Definition
Relating to any behavior such as breathing that is affected by sensory involvement, spontaneous curiousty, and inner harmonic excitement or incitement
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euphonics
Definition
The production of pleasing sound that is agreeable to the ear/
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modality
Definition
A special attribute, emphasis, or way of working that marks certain energies, individuals, things, groups, innovations, and so one.
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