Voice and Diction Midterm

Quality

_______ is the timbre, tonal color, or texture of a voice.

Breathy

Feathery, fuzzy, and whispery. Breath seems to be escaping noticeably. The voice is almost always too soft. (Marilyn Monroe)

Strident

Hard, tense, brassy, and sometimes relatively high-pitched. The voice seems tight. (Rosie O'Donnell)

Harsh

Rough, raspy, gravelly and sometimes quite low-pitched. (Scrooge in Christmas Carol)

Nasal

Talking through the nose. A nasal clang. The voice has a foghorn like and sometimes a wailing or whiny quality. (Dolly Parton)

Denasal

A cold in the nose, stuffy quality. The voice sounds bottled up. Actors use this one to play the boxer with the too often broken nose (Sylvester Stallone)

Throaty

Hollowed, muffled, dullish. A voice from the tomb quality. (Voldemort)

Hoarse

Noisy scratchy raw, strained. The voice suggests its user either has laryngitis or needs to clear the throat. (RFK)

Glottle shock

_________ _______is a raspy little click on vowels at the beginning of words.

Glottle shock

________ ______ is often caused by a tense, strained throat. If the vocal cords are closed too firmly or too tensely before the initial vowel is pronounced, the breath blasts the folds apart.

Vocal fry

_____ ___ is the voice quality that results if the pitch of the voice drops at the end of a phrase or sentence and the voice is allowed to weaken. The final sounds have a growly, bacon-frying, popping sound.

Vocal fry

Poor breath control and excessive tension of the vocal folds are common causes of _____ ___.

Upper Thoracic

______ ______ breathing is using the chest and upper rib cage to breathe.

Clavicular-Shoulder

___________-________ breathing is when you use your upper chest to breathe and is a very shallow breathing technique.

Central-Deep

________-_____ breathing is the best way to breathe. It is incorporating your diaphragm and allows you to breathe more deeply and take fewer breaths.

fast

Should inhalation be slow or fast?

slow

Should exhalation be slow or fast?

Energy, Resonator, Vibrating Agent.

What are the three things that are needed to produce sound?

Schwa

What is the most common sound in the IPA?

tension

Your voice may be breathy if you don't have enough _______ in your vocal cords.

loudness

Your voice may be strident if you are producing _____________ by squeezing and rasping the tone out of your voice.

energy

Your voice may be harsh if you aren't using enough _________.

pitch

You can reduce vocal fry by raising the _______ of your voice.

chin

The throaty voice if often caused by talking with your _____ down.

throat, larynx

Glottle shock is caused by a tense _____ and _______.

Resonators

Your mouth, nose and throat are your _________.

Projection

_____________ gives thrust, precision, and intelligibilty to sound.

p, b, t, d, k, g

What are the six plosives?

l, r, w, j

What are the four glides?

m, n, ŋ

What are the three nasals?

f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h

What are the nine fricatives?

tʃ, dʒ

What are the two affricates?

i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ

What are the five front vowels?

a, ɔ, o, ʊ, u

What are the five back vowels?

ɝ, ɚ, ʌ, ə

What are the four middle vowels?

aɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ, eɪ, oʊ

What are the five diphthongs?

International Phonetic Library

What does IPA stand for?

p-b, t-d, k-g, f-v, s-z, θ-ð, ʃ-ʒ, ʈʃ-dʒ

What are the eight voiced and unvoiced consonant pairs?

19th

The IPA was created in the late ______ century.

Active

Is the tongue an active or passive articulator?

Active

Are the lips an active or passive articulator?

Active

Is the lower jaw an active or passive articulator?

Passive

Is the upper job an active or passive articulator?

Active

Is the soft palate an active or passive articulator?

Active

Are the vocal cords an active or passive articulator?