Social Variation Of American English

Danticat uses her Uncles loss of voice, to show us how different and hard it can be to not have a voice at all. When Danticat was 9 years old, her uncle was diagnosed with throat cancer and the doctors told him that he would need a radical laryngectomy to save his life. Danticat recalls her uncle, a bishop, having a grand voice, a voice that would invoke people to listen when she states, “he would model Fignolé’s forceful and direct Creole diction and speak in a clear, powerful bass, allowing only a few well-chosen pauses” (Danticat p.31) However, as a bishop, her father recalls a time when he’d watched his brother give a

American English has changed the culture of Americans depending on where you live. People in the south have deeply reflected their culture on the English they speak. As you move north on the map northerners call soda pop while southerners call soda what it is actually called. Southerners have been making a big impact on American English by adding y’all into the dictionary.

The vocal note produced by the vibrations of the vocal folds is complex and made up of periodic (regular and repetitive) and aperiodic (irregular and non-repetitive) sound waves. The aperiodic waves are random noise introduced into the vocal signal owing to irregular or asymmetric adduction (closing) of the vocal folds. Noise impairs the clarity of the vocal note and too much noise is perceived as hoarseness.

Pitch of voice – making sure you pitch is right for the level of conversation and the service user you are talking too. Speaking in a low voice can be calming and soothing, but too low and you can sound boring. On the other hand a high pitch can sound shrill and be unpleasant to listen to

At rest and during speech, X showed symmetry in her lips and face. She was a nose breather and showed adequate range of motion for lips and jaw during speech. X demonstrated adequate tongue-jaw and lip-jaw dissociation. She demonstrated sufficient lip strength and was able to produce a tight labial seal. X presented with adequate range of motion of her tongue as noted by her ability to protrude and retract the tongue, create lateral tongue wags, and elevate the tongue tip. She presented with difficulty when fully encircling her lips with her tongue. The client’s dentition was unremarkable.

On July 28, 2015, Thom Dunn wrote about an issue that is often ignored by society today on upworthy.com. In his article, “What is 'Vocal Fry,' And Why Doesn't Anyone Care When Men Talk Like That?” Dunn analyzes the unnecessary criticism women receive due to their use of the lower register. His point is mainly addressed towards societies trying to define gender roles through this trend. Moreover, he recognizes how males aren’t panned for using the vocal fry while females continue to be punished for it. He suggests that we should worry less about the tone of a person and actually listen to the words they’re saying. While he uses strong logic and effective style in his writing, Dunn lacks credibility and fails to make an emotional appeal to his audience, causing his persuasive argument to be ineffective.

The field of voicework is a manifold craft, comprised of such occupations as narrator, voice actor, and radio announcer. These occupations vary in their responsibilities and purposes, yet all share a common component that lies central to their accomplishment. Voice. In particular, a warm and confident voice. In the year of 2011 one such voice was found in a most unlikely place. It was in January of that year that a seemingly innocuous video was filmed and posted on the internet. The subject of that video was one Ted Williams who, at the time, was bereft of a home. Williams was possessed of a noticeably deep and striking voice which soon led to an explosion of popularity centered around the video itself. With this popularity came a recognition of talent, and soon enough he had found himself afloat in a proverbial sea of opportunity.

Meister, J., Hagen, R., Shehata-Dieler, W., Kuhn, H., Kraus, F., & Kleinsasser, N. (2017). Pitch elevation in male-to-female transgender persons—the Wurzburg approach. Journal of Voice, 31(2), 244.e1-244.e5. doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.07.018

On stage, speech and language are two of an actor’s primary tools for communicating a character’s specific intentions. Coming from an acting background, this initial artistic interest was my gateway into appreciating the power of speech and language. By studying vocal anatomy and effective onstage use of one’s voice, I began to value the daily uses of speech and language in new ways. When a close friend suffered a traumatic brain injury, I was shown what it meant to recover after a person’s communication capacity is compromised. Because of his therapy, he relearned a basic speaking vocabulary. His communication was limited, but it was present. My roots in theater and this personal experience have led me to speech pathology.

The terms vocal fry and up-talk are two ways to describe some teenagers talk now. Vocal fry means when one talks like they are choking or out of breath. This frequently happens at the end of a sentence. The definition of up-talk is when one says a sentence with a question in there or answering a question with a question.

I interviewed a male over sixty years of age. He does not have a voice disorder, but he is at risk for developing one. Along with his age, his past has contributed to increasing his risk. His environmental factors have also increased his likelihood of developing a voice disorder.

Quarterly journal of speech Vol. 88, No. 4, November 2002, pp. 413-425, Publics and Counter publics (abbreviated version) Warner, Michael; https://moodle.yorku.ca/moodle/pluginfile.php/1553543/mod_resource/content/1/pub%20counterpub.pdf

A recent phonological development in Australian English displays a difference between younger and older generations through the High Rising Terminal (HRT) which is a rising intonation contour on declarative clauses. The intonation pattern is considered a distinctive feature of Australian English and shows how speakers carry themselves as a person. HRT is used primarily by the younger demographics in Australia, in particular female speakers and has been criticised often, deeming it as a marker of insecurity. However as researchers now point out,

I remember citing in my head a particularly intriguing topic Anne Karpf brought up briefly within the first chapters of her book. She said, “Voice and speech are treated as almost identical, and speech as little more than spoken language… We raid speech for its semantic meaning, and then discard the voice like leftovers, detritus.” (Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. Pg. 13). This opinion of hers seemingly challenged her readers to search throughout their everyday lives in order to pinpoint when and where this sort of obliviousness actually happens. Turns out, these sort of occurrences happen everywhere and often. A man once buoyant and blithesome could simply flatten and lower the tone of his voice and just this would

Transatlantic accent had a strong resemblance to musical type of speaking compared to details that accompany the world’s many leading phonetics that come from a sustained form of education. The fact that transatlantic accent was mainly spoken by the affluent people in the society, means that it copied the phonetics that educated people used to speak and dropped the letter “r” form the words used in the accent, especially from the British accents. In fact, transatlantic accent upon embracing the culture of “r” less pronunciation was promoted as the correct and right international English. Schools of acting, speech, and elocution adopted transatlantic accent and the “r” less pronunciation as a method and taught it in the schools. Speech schools in the United States advanced the accent, thereby, attracting so many people from the elite families to join acting, elocution, and speech schools in order to learn the transatlantic accent (Jenny).