DICTION 101

https://worldlanguagesgazetteer.wordpress.com/2018/06/17/the-organs-of-speech/

VOCAL CORDS/ VOCAL FOLDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx#/media/File:Illu07_larynx02.jpg
 Take note:
ː - long vowel

Close-front
[i] Need, beat, team, reef, bleed

Close-back
[u] Few, choose, boot, roof, lose, gloomy, fruit, chew, coup, cool,

Semi-close-mid-front
[ɪ] which, thin, sit, rich, kick, hit, is, this, with

Close-mid-front
[eɪ] eight, late, bail, snail, page,

Close-mid-back
[oʊ] mode, coal, bone, goat, pole

Semi-close-mid-back
[ʊ] Put, look, should, cook, book, look, pull

Central
[ə] Beautiful, sofa, around, front, blood, coral, open
Open-mid-front
[Ԑ] Went, intend, send, letter, egg

Open-mid-central
[ɝ] Third, turn, worse, world, word, father
Open-mid-back
[ʌ] Fun, love, money, one, London, come, must

Open-mid-back (rounded)
[ɔ] Talk, law, bored, yawn, jaw

Semi-open-mid-front
[æ] Cat, hand, nap, flat, have, apple, Andrew/Andrea, back
Open-front (bright “a”)
[a] Glass, half, father, (and British eg. Harry, park, car, bloody, Hermione)

Open-back (dark “a”)

[a ] Rob, top, watch, squat, hard, arch, car, mop

DIPHTHONGS

[eɪ] bake, made, blaze, fame

[oʊ] plough, rose, bow, tow, Moses,

[aʊ] about, how, couch, fowl, ouch, house

[aɪ] bite, lime, plight, hide, white
[ɔɪ] toy, choice, voice, moist, join

TRIPHTHONGS

[eɪə] mail, fair

[aɪə] aisle, fire, choir, while, child
[ɔɪə] oil, buoyant
 Take note:

Voiced and Unvoiced consonants eg. t, d, s, z

PLOSIVES

[p] pin, cap, purpose, pause

[b] bag, bubble, build, robe
[t] time, train, tow, late, danced, voiced, placed, closed
[d] door, day, drive, down, feed, received,
[k] cash, quick, cricket, sock
[g] girl, green, grass, flag

NASAL

[m] Room, mother, mad, more

[n] Now, nobody, knew, turn
[ŋ] King, thing, song, swimming

FRICATIVES

[f] Full, Friday, fish, knife

[v] Vest, village, view, cave
[Θ] Think, thought, Thursday, earth, depth
[ ð] Those, brothers, either, others, with
[s] Sight, six, silence, sun, kiss
[z] Zoo, crazy, lazy, zigzag, nose
[ʃ] Shirt, rush, shop, cash
[ʒ] Pleasure, treasure, measure
[h] High, help, hold, hello

AFFRICATES

[ ʈʃ ] Choose, cheese, church, watch

[ ʤ ] Joy, juggle, juice, stage

TRILL

[r] road, roses, river, ring, ride

LATERAL

[ ℓ] law, lots, leap, long, pill, cold, chill, melt

GLOTTAL

[j] yellow, usual, tune, yesterday, yard

[w] wall, walk, wine, world
DRILLS
TONGUE TWISTERS

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
2. Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood
4. She sells seashells by the seashore
5. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
6. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
7. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop
8. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
9. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
10. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
11. I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late
12. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
13. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
14. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
15. I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you
16. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
17. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
18. Pitongput pitong puting pating.
19. Bumili ako ng bituka ng butiki sa butika.
20. Ang relo ni Leroy Rolex.
21. Minekaniko ni Moniko ang makina ng manika ni Monika.
22. Palakang Kabkab, kumakalabukab; kaka-kalabukab pa lamang, kumakalabukab na naman.
23. Sinusi ni Susan ang sisidlan ng sisiw.
24. Pinaputi ni Tepiterio ang pitong puting putong patong patong.
25. Kalabit ng kalabit si Alabit na may bitbit sa balikat ng kanyang kalapit-kabalikat kapitbahay.
26. Kakakanan lang sa kangkungan sa may kakahuyan si Ken Ken habang kumakain ng kakaibang
kakanin kahapon.
YOUR VOICE

1. Dumb jaw (relaxed)

2. Breathe
3. Pant (like a tired dog)
4. Vocal fry, then be more generous with the breath
5. Think of your abdomen as your mouth
6. Less to no tension at all

VOICE REGISTERS

1. Chest voice
2. Head Voice
3. Mixed voice
4. False voice (falsetto)

Speaking voice = singing voice ??? You know your body better than others