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articulation:
the process by which individual speech sounds are produced by the tongue lips teeth and soft palate modifying the outgoing breath stream
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know what the articulators are:
the lips, the front teeth, the lower jaw, the tongue, velum (soft palate)
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what is vocal monotony
monopitch
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what causes vocal monotony
1. personality characteristics: lazy, frigid, indifferent or introverted individuals, also those plagued by stage fright tend to be monotonous. 2. Dull, technical, repetitious subject matter
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pitch:
the highness or lowness of tone or sound. Determined by length, thickness and mass and tension
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Range:
the span of tones from lowest to highest that the voice is capable of making
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Intonation:
the overall pattern of pitch changes in phrases and sentences
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Key:
the general pitch level ranging anywhere from high to low that is used at any given moment in talking or reading
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Inflections:
changing pitch within a syllable, word, or group of words
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Steps:
a pitch change between words or syllables. The voice leaps or springs from one pitch to another, either up or down. Only one tone is used per word
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Stress:
the degree of prominence of a syllable within a word or a word within a phrase or sentence.
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Emphasis:
the degree of prominence given to a phrase or thought grouping.
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Rate:
the speed at which a person speaks, the length or duration of sounds, and the length and number of pauses
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Duration:
the length or amount of sound
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Phrase:
a group of related words expressing a thought or “sense” unit or an idea. Phrases are set off from each other with pauses
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Pause:
a rest stop, a period of silence
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Be able to explain how to determine operative words
Most operative words are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
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operative words:
key or idea words that most truly reveal the meaning and thought of a passage
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