Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell.

  • Alexander Melville Bell
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[1896]
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Credit: Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drawling. This habit is, however, happily, less common in public delivery than in con¬ versational speech. The faulty action of the month—in moving from open to close positions—is strikingly illustrated in Stuttering and Stammering. The voice, in these cases, is choked in the throat, or emitted in discontinuous jerks, and the mouth is CONSONANT-CLOGGED. In my long experience with defects of this kind, the true principle of oral action has invariably worked like a charm. In many instances the impediment has wholly disap¬ peared after the first lesson. Only the nervous dread of habitual difficulty can pre¬ vent immediate relief, when once the stutterer has practically learned the simple law of phonetic syllabication :—to articulate from close to open positions. In communicating this key to the art of removing impediments of speech, I am giving my American brethren a valuable professional hint. During more than fifty years I have
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