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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"voice and speech"”.
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Laryngeal function associated with changes in lung volume during voice and speech production in normal speaking women
… explored possible relations between respiratory and laryngeal function associated with changes in lung volume level during phonation. Respiratory, acoustic, aerodynamic, electroglottographic, and videostroboscopic measures were obtained simultaneously for 14 normal female speakers as they …
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Sing Together! Choral Singing as a Supplementary Training Method for Actors
Voice and speech training for the actor has traditionally defined itself as distinct from the vocal training of the musical theatre or opera singer. The separation in philosophy and practice by trainers of actors and singers reflects the resultant capabilities and proclivities of our performers. …
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Perceptual and acoustic impacts of aberrant properties of electrolaryngeal speech
… thus rendering patients unable to produce normal voice and speech. Laryngectomy patients must rely on an alternative means of producing voice and speech, with the most common method being the use of an electrolarynx (EL). The EL is a small, hand-held, electromechanical device that acoustically …
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STEPPING INTO THE WORLD OF THE VOCAL COACH: ASSESSING VOCAL COACHING NEEDS
… detailing methods to help actors develop their voices, but not much has been published about vocal coaching itself, apart from the definitive guide to Vocal Coaching Nan-Withers Wilson’s book Vocal Direction for the Theatre, and the highly informative publication How to Use a Vocal Coach: A …
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Parkinsonian Speech and Voice Quality: Assessment and Improvement
… nearly 90% of people impaired with PD develop voice and speech disorders. Speech production impairments in PD subjects typically result in hypophonia and consequently, poor speech signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in noisy environments and inferior speech intelligibility and quality. Assessment, …
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Camping in the Classroom: Ridiculous Theatre as Serious Drama
My first semester pursuing my MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy I vocal-coached an openly gay student playing a straight character who would mask his sexual identity in such a manner that his performance became stiff and uninteresting. Rather than using his personal identity as an asset in the …
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AMILOIDOSE - DEMANDAS E PERFIL FONOAUDIOLÓGICO: Revisão de literatura
… deposited in the extracellular space of organs and tissues as insoluble fibrils. The reason these fibrils accumulate is not yet clearly elucidated. Once amyloid is formed, susceptible patients have a reduced ability to mobilize and degrade it. With accumulation of proteins, a distortion in the …
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An American Actor's Dialect
… the course of the past ten years, both studying and teaching Voice & Speech for the Actor, I have become frustrated with the status quo of so called 'standard speech'. The two dialects that I have studied in depth are Edith Skinner's 'American Classical Stage Standard' and Kenneth Crannell's …
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Auditory comprehension: from the voice up to the single word level
Auditory comprehension, the ability to understand spoken language, consists of a number of different auditory processing skills. In the five studies presented in this thesis I investigated both intact and impaired auditory comprehension at different levels: voice versus phoneme perception, as well …
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Unveiling the impact of neuromotor disorders on speech: a structured approach combining biomechanical fundamentals and statistical machine learning
Speech has been shown to convey clinically useful information in the study of Neurodegenerative Disorders (NDs), such as Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Traditionally the use of speech as an exploratory tool in People with Parkinson’s (PwP) has focused on the estimation of acoustic characteristics and …
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THE ELIZA-HIGGINS MODEL: THE IDEOLOGY, RAPPORT AND METHODS OF DIALECT ACQUISITION
George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912) and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady (1956) offer 20th century’s most famous example of dialect acquisition: the transformation of Eliza Doolittle under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins. The opportunity to work on Barksdale Theatre’s production of …