A Drill Manual for Improving Speech

Amy cook Anna back vowel blending Breath pressure built breath stream forced combination COMMON SPELLINGS Compare the sounds diphthong DRILL Eastern and Southern EDGAR ALLAN POE Emma English explosion farther back father following pairs fricative front vowel GILBERT AND SULLIVAN glide groups of words gumridge heard HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW italicized syllables LEWIS CARROLL lips mouth nasal night nose OCCASIONAL SPELLINGS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES pairs of words pear PHONETIC SYMBOLS plosive PLOSIVES FOLLOWED potato digging pronunciation read the examples Read the following rhythm SHAKESPEARE Soft palate lowered Soft palate raised sonant Southern American speech SPELLING UNSTRESSED FORM Stress the italicized tongue is bunched tongue-tip triphthong UNSTRESSED FORM EXAMPLE unstressed syllables upper side teeth usually pronounced Vibrating breath stream vocal cords VOICED Soft palate VOICELESS Soft palate vowel-murmur WASHINGTON IRVING