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From:
Bill Reese Date: Wed Dec 6, 2000 6:10 pm Subject: Re: facial expressions and lip-reading | |
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Stefan, Would a long bar above the symbols work for indicating long vocals? That's how long vowels are notated in English language pronounciation. Bill Stefan Woehrmann wrote: > Angus wrote : > > " I'm taking a class in spoken-language phonetics right now, and > it's interesting to learn all the different methods that people have come > up with for speech synthesis." > > Hi Angus and listmembers, > > " keyword : different methods ...speech ... > > as you might know - German is a difficult language to learn for the deaf > children - > In the first phase of first class we concentrate very much on getting > familiar with the letters of the alphabet and their pronounciation within a > given context. > > The first time when I showed my new system of SW articulation-signs to the > list, Valerie was very amused because it is so difficult to compare our > German sound for the letter A and the English or American version - I guess > it depends on my German accent - as well > > Nevertheless - I succeeded to develop a whole set of sound-signs for the > German Language which is a tremendous help for my students to improve their > articulation - or to get started from the beginning ;-) > > The good experiences with this system are wonderfull. > > Looking and concentrating on these SW- faces - my students improved a lot to > get informations from looking at my mouth when Iīm speaking to them : short > words, their names, special phonems ... > They learn to concentrate on lipreading much better !!! > > I would like to ask you or other interested SW -listmembers if they can > imagine of any improvements ? > Especially the following problem needs a solution: I havenīt decided yet how > to indicate the long-vocal sounds compared to the vocals of normal lenght. > > Only about 30 percent of the articulation can be identified clearly from the > lips of the speaker. Within my system I added the "aspiration" - lines for > voiceless sounds. Sometimes I added handshapes in order to inform about the > sound ( d vs. t etc) > > The foto shows Irina - explaining the SW-faces to the students . > > All the best Stefan ;-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: SW cued speech Irina M.jpg > SW cued speech Irina M.jpg Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) > Encoding: base64 |
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