Jun 07 2010
Fine Tune Your Vocal Image through Ear-Training: An Internet Resource
How you say what you say is called prosody. It is the thing I call Vocal Image, a personality we create through many elements of sound including pitch, rhythm, emotion, volume, and length of tone, among others. I have many examples of the importance of prosody in this blog, but I have also said that you cannot change a sound you cannot hear. That’s why I was thrilled to find a site that trains your ear to hear differences in prosody. There are exercises in identifying sound that easily open up in Windows Media Player and include several languages as well. These lessons, adapted for the internet with permission by Peter Gilles and Anne Catherine Simon, include hearing long and short sounds, pitch differentiation, and contour of sound. Kind of fun! Take a look/listen and let me know what you think:
- Lessons in Prosody, an internet adaptation of William S. Smalley’s Manual of articulatory phonetics (Ann Arbor 1963).
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