Phonetics

In the show Between the Lions they use different methods to teach children phonemic awareness, phonetics, fluency, vocabulary development, and more. When I was a child I watched this show almost daily with my sisters. I liked the fact that it was educational and entertaining with how they used catchy songs to appeal to children. In this specific episode the way they taught phonetics stood out to me. They took the word “west” from the first song and turned it into the word “best” by taking out…

been developed throughout the years as a result of the changes of structures in the world and society. Thus the further explanation of this essay will be on five different fields, there are, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Semantics and Sociolinguistics. The first field that will be explained is Phonetics.…

Adaptive Maneuvers Kamen, R. S., & Watson, B. C. (1991). Effects of long-term tracheostomy on spectral characteristics of vowel production. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 34(5), 1057-1065. Kamen and Watson (1991) completed a study on the effects long-term tracheostomy has on spectral characteristic of vowel production for children aged 39 to 60 months who underwent a tracheotomy in which they were cannulated between 15 to 42 months. Kamen and Watson (1991) examined 8…

The laryngeal muscles of the phonatory system are comprised of a group of both intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. Out of these two muscle groups, the placement of the extrinsic muscles are what confuse me the most. The extrinsic laryngeal muscles are further divided into suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles. The suprahyoid muscles attach superiorly to the hyoid bone and elevate the larynx and hyoid bone, while the infrahyoid muscles attach inferiorly to the hyoid bone and depress the larynx and the…

In the yellow box, you can see that Mr. Hanson can produce nasalizations very well. In this image, he is making the /m/ sounds of “my motorcycle.” The nasal formants in the yellow boxes show the correct way to form a nasalization with low are dark first formant and a light space with little to no formant two. In these screenshots, you can see that Mr. Hanson’s speech is pretty much constantly a nasalization. In the boxes above, the blue box is his normal speech, and the green box is the when…

The student A-B-C data collected reinforced that the targeted behavior occurs most often when D.B is fatigued or emotionally upset. The antecedent (or what happens before the behavior) has been verified, as the announcement of afternoon reading instruction. D.B is often able to makes progress alone, and is less distractible when less then five students are present. The behavior is often task avoidance and defensiveness. The consequences are always negative to the student; she expresses she…

The earliest of studies for speech sounds has been studied intensively since the early 1930s. Studies concerning the acquisition of phonemes are used in clinical practice and serve as a guideline to a practicing clinician. The earliest of studies came from 1931 by Wellman, Case, Mengert and Bradbury. Following Wellman’s findings, other researchers found new material and listing different ages in comparison to Wellman’s research. Sander (1972) discusses the various individuals that contributed to…

Annotated Bibliography Ashley Raybon & Regine Yaites COMP 357 Abilene Christian University Annotated Bibliography Question: How do hormones affect the voice? Amir, O., Kishon-Rabin, L., & Muchnik, C. (2002). The effect of oral contraceptives on voice. Journal of Voice, 16(2), 267-273. doi: 10.1016/s0892-1997(02)00096-6 A group of ten women were evaluated in this study. They were divided into two groups, five who use birth control pills and five who do not use birth control pills. The…

Introduction to Phonics Instruction Phonics is a reading component that teaches young children “how spellings are related to speech sounds in systematic ways (letter-sound relationships)” (Cooter & Reutzel, 2016, p. 170). Students use their phonics skills to aid in decoding unknown words in the text. According to McIntyre and colleagues “the content of phonics instruction should correspond to children’s development of word reading and children’s developing orthography or spelling patterns”, thus…

The Alphabetic Principle involves the understanding that sounds of letters and that letters represent sounds are combined to form represent sounds are combined to form words. Between the spoken sounds and the written language, a connection is made. Based on a relationship between systematic sounds, written letters, and spoken words, letters and their combinations are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds. The Alphabetic Principle is composed of three parts. They are letter naming,…