STRESS. Radical Median - Terminal - Thorough - . tent. rated - Guttural PHRASING OR GROUPING - EXPRESSION BY ACTION. Sir Charles Bell's Investigations - Dar- win's Principles Other Classifications. LIST OF AUTHORITIES. THE following are some of the authorities used in this book: GUTTMAN, OSKAR. HOLMES, GORDON HELMHOLTZ JEBB, JOHN LEGOUVE, EARNEST MONROE, L. B. PLUMPTRE, CHARLES J. TYNDALL, JOHN WHITE, R. G.. 66 by F. Shaw.) "Vocal Gymnastics.” Physiology and Hygiene of the Voice." "Sensation of Tone." (Trans. by Alex, J. Ellis) "Attic Orators." "Art of Reading." (Trans. by Edwd. Roth.) "The Human Body." "Vocal Gymnastics" and "Reader." INTRODUCTION. I. - NECESSITY AND IMPORTANCE OF ELOCUTIONARY TRAINING. ALTHOUGH the subject of elocution is slowly assuming a place of importance in the country, there is still a great deal of misapprehension among people, otherwise intelligent, as to the nature and utility of the study. The objections urged are usually brief and stereotyped. I hope an answer to them may be found in the following dis cussion. (1.) The first argument for the study is found in the fact that the use of language and speech is acquired. However the race may have come by the power of language, certainly each one must acquire its use. The simplest forms of speech are learned in infancy. The person born deaf, not being impressible by the usual methods, remains destitute of the faculty of speech until unusual means are employed; then even the deaf learn language, and the dumb are made to speak. The models we imitate are not always perfect ones; therefore faulty pronunciations, inflections, even bad qualities of voice, and other imperfections are acquired. Leaving these beginnings, man is conscious of thought, emotions, and affections, which he would express to others to whom he is related. The more refined the thought and delicate the emotion, the more difficult the expression, and he finds at last that language is poverty-stricken, in fact, sometimes a hinderance, to convey the burden of thought and heart. * See Bell's "Visible Speech," for deaf-mutes. |