I think the intellectual part, where you understand the sounds physically and you understand the rules is great, and we need to come at it from that way, but I also think we need to come at it from the other way which is pure imitation, opening your ear to what you are really hearing.
I think the best way to study pronunciation is to really come at it from more than one direction. So I hope with these imitation exercises that I can get you to hear the musicality of American English in a new way. And if you learn all the right parts of pronunciation, but still do those American pronunciation parts within the musical language of your native language, there will still be something missing. These could allow us to determine the way in which musical expression may precede language, and to relate music with rhythmical movement and expressive gestures. Each language really has its own individual musicality to it. And it’s my hope that in that looping, you will take your mind out of ‘these are the words I want to say’, and put your mind into ‘this is what I’ve heard pitch, rhythm, melody, and spit it back out the exact same way. If you’ve seen those, you know that I’ll loop something three times, a phrase or a part of a phrase, and there will then be a gap for you to repeat it. This is an excerpt from that podcast.Īnd this is exactly what I try to do with my imitation exercises. I studied weekly voice lessons in classical singing for well over a decade, and that really informs my approach to teaching pronunciation. Firstly, musical. Now, those of you that know a bit about me but rather in singing and music. There are firm scientific grounds for a link between musical abilities and first (L1) and/or second language (L2) proficiency. And this particular episode was called Musical Language. It’s a great weekly podcast, I really enjoy it. Every aspect of linguistics is fascinating to me. Seuss, Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems, Mirandy and. In this article five picture books will be discussed for their musical attributes: Now One Foot, Now the Other, by Tomie dePaola, The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. They are accessing more of the whole child.
MUSICALITY OF LANGUAGE CRACK
The stress of a particular note in a musical piece could just as well be a clue in language that would crack open new meanings for her, she says. The authors of picture books who write especially melodic language are doing more than simply offering up work that is pleasing to the ear. I was recently listening to a podcast that was very exciting to me. As a child, she discovered a musicality in languages that could yield cultural perspectives and disclose ways of interpreting the world. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. In this video, I reflect on a podcast I heard (Radiolab out of NYC – one of my favorites!) that relates to the musical nature of language.
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