speech

So much language!

March 25, 2009 · 0 comments

A very language filled day. Stretching my brain to figure out things it’s not used to, things I take for granted. Like the l sound at the end of words. How do YOU end the words ball, bell, apple, girl, and any other l-final word you can think of. Do you say the l? Do you get your tongue into position for it and stop there? Is it more of a w? Or dropped completely?

Or the schwa, that Principal Skinner made famous. The “neutral” vowel… or the one that we hear in NZ English, or our un-emphasised syllables. Like in banana after the b… “Discussing” this in a room full of 26 or so speechies, trying to figure out the best transcriptions for our speech assessments. Having people say it slightly differently, or claiming to say it differently. Then trying to find it on our little vowel charts as to what the phonetic transcription should really be. And how it’s changed since people were in uni!

Fun, tricky. (Nerdy!)

Then we get to a similar thing in Japanese, trying to figure out the katakana transcriptions for the “foreign” words and names we want to use. Similar process, just different symbols. Still nerdy and fun. As is when the grammar just clicks for me and I figure out the rules for myself and then could apply it. If only my vocab was bigger.

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Love New Music

May 6, 2008 · 0 comments

Always ona quest to have something new on this computer and my ipod (for gym, or for drowning out noisy workmates in a shared office space) I have two new albums as of yesterday:

portisehead - third The first one is the new Portishead album, Third. Had heard one or two of the songs on Triple J, but saw it yesterday for $19.99 at JBHiFi, and thought why not, I’m sure I’ll like it that much :)
And I do. It’s definately an album that the more you listen to it, teh more it grows… :)

The other album is the downloadable Nine Inch Nails – The Slip. Yes, I downloaded it because it was free. No, I don’t own any other NIN, but I do have memories of some of the more popular songs over my time. I prefer the Portishead, but am not deleting the NIN :p

=^.^=

Spent the afternoon doing articulation assessments. 5 of them in 3 hours. I actually enjoyed it – Proabbly because I had success with some and got some sounds out of them that they hadn’t said before :) Sometimes I really love my work :p

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