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... Utterance of equal Notes ; so there is ( as before obferved ) no Senfe or Ex- preffion to be gathered from the uniform Utterance of furd and unmeaning Sounds : And yet as these are the fundamental and constituent Parts of vocal Speech ...
... Utterance of equal Notes ; so there is ( as before obferved ) no Senfe or Ex- preffion to be gathered from the uniform Utterance of furd and unmeaning Sounds : And yet as these are the fundamental and constituent Parts of vocal Speech ...
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John Rice. of the Voice in Utterance . So that Ac- cent with us , continues he , is not referred to Tune , but to Time ; to Quantity , not Qua- lity . 66 66 " It is by the Accent chicfly ( says this " Author ) that the Quantity + of our ...
John Rice. of the Voice in Utterance . So that Ac- cent with us , continues he , is not referred to Tune , but to Time ; to Quantity , not Qua- lity . 66 66 " It is by the Accent chicfly ( says this " Author ) that the Quantity + of our ...
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... Utterance . • I should be glad also to know the Ef- fect of his fecond Method of accenting Syllables . Will the smart Percuffion , he fpeaks of , render the Tone more acute , or only more loud ? If the former , it hath some- thing to do ...
... Utterance . • I should be glad also to know the Ef- fect of his fecond Method of accenting Syllables . Will the smart Percuffion , he fpeaks of , render the Tone more acute , or only more loud ? If the former , it hath some- thing to do ...
Contents
Obfervations on the Defects and Perfection | 1 |
The Analysis of SPEECH | 19 |
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