The Psychology of Speech |
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21st month 22nd month ability actor adult animals aphasia articulate speech arytenoid arytenoid cartilages audience auditory Boston Boys brain breathing called cartilages cavity cerebrum character child chords consonant dramatic emotional English epiglottis expression facial FIGURE fissure of Rolando gesture girls given glottis Grade habits handicap hard palate human IBID ideas imagery images imagination imitation important individual Instinct intelligence language larynx learning lips lisp lobes means memory ment mental mind motor speech Mount Holyoke College mouth movements muscles musical nerve nervous occipital lobes oral personality Phonetic pitch play posterior posture Practise primitive Psychology respiration score sensory showing social soft palate speak speaker speech defects spinal cord stimuli stuttering symbols teacher THALAMUS THYROID CARTILAGE tion tone tongue trachea utterance vibration visual vivid vocabulary vocal cords voice voiceless vowel
Popular passages
Page 192 - With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Page 189 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Page 194 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Page 24 - Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.
Page 116 - I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 186 - Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
Page 186 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul...
Page 116 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Page 191 - Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told; But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed. On the other side, Adam, soon as he heard The fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed, Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins, and all his joints relaxed.
Page 194 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...