"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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Principles of Elocution: With Exercises and Notations for Pronunciation ... Alexander Melville Bell No preview available - 2014 |
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accented syllable action adverbs antithesis articulation assertive body brave breath Cæsar Carlos Wilcox Christian Christian Philosophy clause compound dead death denoted Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fear feel fool force gesture give glottis grammatical hand happy hath heart heaven honour ical idea imitative implied inflexion interrogative labial larynx letters light lingual lips look marked mind mode modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation noun nounced o'er passion pauses phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation reading rising Scotch sense sentence separate Shakespeare soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit subordinate syllables tears tence thee thine things thou thought tion tones tongue unaccented unemphatic utterance verb Visible Speech vocal voice vowel sound W. E. Aytoun weep wind words wretched