ENGLISH ARTICULATION AND PRONUNCIATION

• Volume - loudness/softness of your voice, higher volume allows you to emphasize important points in your speech
• Pitch - highness/lowness of your voice
• Rate - speed at which persons speaks.
• Quality - timbre of your voice, distinguishes your voice from another.
• Vocal Pauses - emphasis, new idea, for dramatic impact or break
• Vocal Stress - prominence of a SYLLABLE
• prefix - stressed on the first syllable of the root word
• Suffixes - changes in stress
• Vocal Emphasis - prominence of a WORD in a sentence/phrase
• Vocal Variety - good use of pauses, stress and emphasis
• Audibility - effective use of force, volume depends sa dami ng tao
• Breath Control and Vocal Projection - correct breathing
• Pleasantness and Unpleasantness of Voice - relaxed, well modulated or nasal, raspy
• Fluency - mastery of languagr
• Flexibility - vocal variety, proper use of aspects of voice
• Breathing Stage - force assisting in vocalization, Inhilation/Exhalation
• Lungs - reservoir of air
• Diaphragm - sheet of muscle separating the chest from the abdomen
• Larynx - principal organ of phonation, top of the trachea.
• Glottis - space between folds, produces the buzzing quality to the speech called voice/voicing
• Vocal Cords - pair of bundles of muscles, opens and closes
• Trachea - passageway of air
• Windpipe - other term for Trachea
• Resonation - the amplification or modification of voice
• Pharynx - common passageway of food and or, located below the mouth and nose, holds and manipulates vocal cords.
• Nasopharynx - frontal sinus, hard palate, soft palateu
• Oral Pharynx - uvula, tongue, epiglottis
• Laryngeal Pharynx - hyoid bone
• Articulation Stage - the tone produced by pharynx is changed to specific sounds
• Lips - creates labial and labiodental consonant sounds
• Alveolar Ridge - between the upper front teeth and the hard palate
• Teeth - embedded in gum ridges, labiodental and dental sounds.
• Dome - bony roof, /t/, /d/, /j/
• Velum - separated the nasopharynx from the oral caavity
• Uvula - small numb on the lower part of the soft palate
• Tongue - flexible organ
• Pronunciation - combination of vowels, consonants, syllables and accents
• Articulation - process of forming meaningful oral symbols through manipulation of the articulators.
• Position of the tongue - front, central, back
• Height of the jaw - high, mid, low