Pitch accent

personality. The elements of paralanguage are: pitch, volume, rate, articulation, pronunciation and salience. Each part of them plays an important role in delving the information. (Teri and Michael Gamble, 2013) A) Sound Pitch: It is the highness or lowness of our voice. Female voices have higher pitches compered to male voices. We express low pitch voice with strangers and mature conversation, and high pitch voice while we are stressed and nervous. It is the voice pitch that makes others…

The Mexican left back passed me the ball so I switch the play to the right side of the pitch. Our Brazilian right midfielder Eduardo was ready to cross the ball to our Jamaican striker Alonzo. Eduardo fooled everyone and he passed it to our playmaker Michael who scored the winning goal and together we made history for Cheshire Academy. All of these nationalities companied together under the roof of American freedom. Diversity is a key element to improve and have a successful society.…

A Risk Worth Taking After a long day at work my entire body aches with pain, It felt like somebody wacked me in the stomach with a baseball bat, as I rode my bike home with my paycheck in my hand I watched out for broken bottles, stray bullets, and gang members on the street ,as you can imagine this is a terrible neighborhood. As I walked into an ally I see my home a small green tent covered with tears, mud, and even a knife sticking out the side, I walked in side and sat on my inflatable…

Thirteen Ways to Kill a Blackbird is a poem by Wallace Stevens which explores and highlights the perceptions of humans to our surroundings and the multitude of ways in which these can be perceived. It does this by having each of the thirteen stanzas in the poem portray and examine a new way in which the blackbird is viewed by the speaker. This poem uses a haiku style, which Stevens was particularly interested in. Haiku poems traditionally have three lines with five, seven and five syllables…

Its noon in Chicago, the game doesn’t start until 4 o’clock, but I can already smell the hot dogs. I make my way down the gum covered concrete stairs to the Red Line subway station. I purchase my ticket at the automated kiosk and proceed to rails to wait for the next train. Like every game day in Chicago, the subway tunnels are filled with business men, tourists, the crazy fanatics, and some very talented musicians preforming trying to make money for some dinner later. Their music echoes…

romantic song. The drums kept a steady soft 3/3 beat. After the initial melody, the vocalist started singing lyrics that incorporated the title of the song. His voice was a little hard to understand, at times it sounded as if he had a really thick accent or as if he was mumbling the lyrics. Even though it was difficult to understand the words of the vocalist, it was still noticeable that the words went along the rhythm of the song and the melody. After the lyrical section of the song, the…

times it has been rehearsed” (Lucas 242). The speech had good nonverbal communication because she used her body and voice effectively to clearly express her ideas. She had minor inflections in her voice, which are “changes in pitch or tone” (Lucas 244). Her slightly repetitive pitch pattern could distract the audience. Her…

The word “Alienated” is used to describe something or someone who is a cast off meaning the person or object has been abandoned or is no longer wanted. I am the opposite of alienated, in fact, the most common word used to describe me is a social butterfly. I delight in having a conversation with anyone and everyone; because of this trait, I am able to form friendships easily. My social skills developed all thanks to my mother. As a child, I attended a Catholic pre-school that she taught at. She…

Matthew would change her voice to match the character, setting or the scene we’re at in the book. I can’t remember any exact lines she said but all I remember back then that it was pretty hilarious. Listening to her voice going from low pitch too high, her accent and way of speaking changes to the time period and setting of whatever the book was in, made…

On December 7th, at 7:30pm, I attended It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play. Illinois State University’s adaptation of this classic film took place in the Center for the Performing Arts. The actors took the stage as members of a 1940s radio show, playing a multitude of characters depicted in the original film. Although vastly different from the cinema version, this adaptation was very successful due to the congruous 1940s costumes, the use of varied voices to portray numerous characters, and…