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Page 199
... speech , then , or from intoning to speech , is made by ceasing to dwell for any notice- able interval upon a fixed pitch . Our conventional musical notation can not accurately represent the melodic pattern of the voice in speech ...
... speech , then , or from intoning to speech , is made by ceasing to dwell for any notice- able interval upon a fixed pitch . Our conventional musical notation can not accurately represent the melodic pattern of the voice in speech ...
Page 218
... speech may be free from dialect and provincialism . One who has spent all his life east of the Hudson river may be as poor a model as one who has always lived west of the Mississippi . We must stipulate also that the speech we imitate ...
... speech may be free from dialect and provincialism . One who has spent all his life east of the Hudson river may be as poor a model as one who has always lived west of the Mississippi . We must stipulate also that the speech we imitate ...
Page 221
... speech standards , it is doubtful if one can successfully adopt and practice a speech alien to his community , and it is folly to expect that any standard can be legislated into use among those to whom it is not native . In conversation ...
... speech standards , it is doubtful if one can successfully adopt and practice a speech alien to his community , and it is folly to expect that any standard can be legislated into use among those to whom it is not native . In conversation ...
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