A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 páginas |
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... Syllables , Simple melody of Speech , Full Cadence , Transition of Voice , Employment of Quantity , Of Plaintiveness in speech , Tremor of the Voice , • • Force of voice under the form of Radical Stress , Force of voice under the form ...
... Syllables , Simple melody of Speech , Full Cadence , Transition of Voice , Employment of Quantity , Of Plaintiveness in speech , Tremor of the Voice , • • Force of voice under the form of Radical Stress , Force of voice under the form ...
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... syllable over syllable ; nor , as it were , melted together into a mass of confusion . They should neither be abridged nor prolong- ed , nor swallowed , nor forced ; they should not be trailed nor drawled , nor let to slip out ...
... syllable over syllable ; nor , as it were , melted together into a mass of confusion . They should neither be abridged nor prolong- ed , nor swallowed , nor forced ; they should not be trailed nor drawled , nor let to slip out ...
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... syllables , according to an approved standard of pronunciation . Now a sylla- ble is sometimes a single indivisible sound : but sometimes it consists of several simple distinguishable sounds , into which it can be divided by the voice ...
... syllables , according to an approved standard of pronunciation . Now a sylla- ble is sometimes a single indivisible sound : but sometimes it consists of several simple distinguishable sounds , into which it can be divided by the voice ...
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... syllables of our language . Elements make syllables , syllables words , and words discourse . If each element which ought to be sounded in a word is distinctly formed by the organs of utterance , the word must be well pronounced , and ...
... syllables of our language . Elements make syllables , syllables words , and words discourse . If each element which ought to be sounded in a word is distinctly formed by the organs of utterance , the word must be well pronounced , and ...
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... syllables : 2 , That the elementary sounds heard in pronouncing syllables ought to be care- fully distinguished from the sounds which constitute the names of the letters . This distinction is important , be- cause the sounds of the ...
... syllables : 2 , That the elementary sounds heard in pronouncing syllables ought to be care- fully distinguished from the sounds which constitute the names of the letters . This distinction is important , be- cause the sounds of the ...
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
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