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Phono CliniC Phono CliniC and UPdateand UPdate

by Prof. Silvia

A. Schnitzler

The purpose of this clinic is to provide a “learning space” from a person-centered learning approach.

To achieve a proper professional use of the voice, it is fundamental to know about the body, the breathing mechanism, voice projection, the resonators, and voice control in noisy environments.

Characteristics of our voices will be analyzed and tips to maximize their potential will be provided.

“Phono Clinic and Update” - Prof. Silvia A. Schnitzler

VideoVideo:El Cuidado de la Voz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_u7TstBwY


“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled

by, and that has made all the difference”

Robert Frost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_u7TstBwY

“La voz es el Hombre” Voice is Man

THE WORD carries the intellectual message.

THE VOICE transmits the emotional message.

The voice is the true asset that escapes the teacher, as a person, to be projected to his/her students.

Voice disfunctions limit the professional development and interfere with the continuity of daily activities.

Our voiceprints are more distinctive and public

than our fingerprints. We tell others WHO and

HOW we are, then why neglect our most

precious asset?

Alan Maley (2000)

“We ARE our Voices”

Sustained overuse and misuse impairs efficiency and can cause permanent damage.

Therefore, as professional voice users, we should get training in voice use.

“Teacher development is the process of becoming the best teacher you can be.

It means becoming a student of learning, your own as well as that of others”

(Maley 2000)


Essential to maximize our voices potential

RelaxationRelaxationthe key to all voicework is to start from a position of a position of

minimum tensionminimum tension. you allow your body to act in the least effortful way.Posture Posture everyday new habits work against good natural posture.

Exercises help to correct poor body use habits and to restore a well-balanced, centered posture.

BreathingBreathing breath occupies the most active place in human vocal

production: it is the energy impulse that excites the impulse that excites the vibration in the vocal folds and the resulting resonance in vibration in the vocal folds and the resulting resonance in the bodythe body - starting, continuing, and stopping it.

Natural Poise

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BreathingBreathing

Voice is an actionVoice is an action. It has no location in the body except when it is in action, sounding.

Breathing exercisesBreathing exercises THE COMPLETE BREATH BLOWING OUT CANDLES FLAT TYRE VACUUMING THE LUNGS

Characteristics of our voices and speech habits

Resonance

reinforcement and intensification of sound by vibrations.

Articulation

the way we chop up the sound after it comes through the vocal

chords, using the teeth, the tongue, the soft palate and the jaws.

Volume

projection: ‘think’ your voice out, but do not push it out.

Modulation

giving an effective tone to the voice.


Onset of the voice/resonanceOnset of the voice/resonance RumblingRumbling Mouth and noseMouth and nose Close your ears and feel!Close your ears and feel!

Exercises to improve: VolumeVolume

Sweet and slowOff the wallCrescendo

Exercises to improve: ModulationModulation

Chunking and mood swingsSemi-supine speaking

ArticulationArticulationTwo basic kinds of exercises:

to warm up the articulatorsEg. face muscles, jaws, lips & tongue, etc.

to practice particular soundsEg. tongue twisters, minimal pairs, discrimination

excercise, sensitization activities, etcFilm clips:- The Pink Panther

“I would like to buy a hamburguer”V for Vendetta

“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the

vicissitudes of fate …and you may call me ‘V’”

Dramatic technique of mimicry / imitation mouthing

TrackingA technique in which students repeat with / along a

speaker Shadowing (echoing)A technique in which learners repeat as in tracking,

although slightly after the speaker. MirroringA technique that involves repeating simultaneously with a

speaker while imitating all the speakers’ gestures, eye movements, and body posturing.

Watch “Goldmember”Goldmember” Foxy Cleopatra/Nathan Lane & Austin

Powers

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The general tendency, which operates on both long and short vowelsboth long and short vowels, is that vowels are shortened in stressed syllablesstressed syllables closed by a fortis consonant and are given more length in stressed syllables closed by a lenis consonant.

Length is a variable matter, depending on the quality of the neighbouring sounds.

Raise awareness

Sensitization exercises

“ … in order to engage successfully with

pronunciation, we (teachers and students)

needed the confidence that comes from

direct and conscious physical experience

of experimenting with the muscles and

breath energy in own vocal tract.”

Underhill (2005)


Raise awareness Sensitization exercises ‘discovering’:

Horizontal tongue position

In-between sounds in a vertical continiuum

Jaw position


Typical traditional R.P. vowels on the cardinal vowel table, based on Gimson (1970)

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Soap Opera Author for a Day !!!Soap Opera Author for a Day !!!Read the following excerpt. Write a similar dialogue based on a current

soap opera. You must try and use minimal pairs. Act it out !!!

I love youRuss: Honey, why are you so sad? (Janet says nothing) Honey, why are you so unhappy? I don’t understand.Janet: You don’t love me, Russ!Russ: But, honey, I love you very much.Janet: That’s untrue. You love my cousin, Sunny. You think she’s lovely

and I’m ugly.Russ: Janet, just once last month I took Sunny out for lunch. You mustn’t

worry. I like your company much better than Sunny’s.Janet: Oh, shut up, Russ.Russ: But, honey, I think you’re wonderful. You mustn’t ...Janet: Oh, SHUT UP!

Source: Baker, Ann (1992) “Ship or Sheep” (p. 18), CUP.

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