| A | B |
|---|
| quality | the sound of an individual voice |
| resonance | the bouncing of sound waves off of internal cavities to provide richness to the voice |
| nasality | talking through the nose |
| pitch | the highness or lowness of the voice |
| inflection | adjusting the pitch of the voice up or down to show different emotional states |
| monotone | speaking without changing the pitch of the voice |
| volume | the relative intensity of the voice |
| rate | the speed at which a person speaks |
| articulation | saying the words clearly |
| schwa | a pronunciation symbol for the "uh" sound, as in about |
| diction | the selection and pronunciation of words and their combination in speech |
| pronunciation | saying words using correct sounds and placing the correct accent on syllables |
| voiceless | a consonant sound that doesn't vibrate the vocal folds |
| voiced | a consonant sound that vibrates the vocal folds |
| illusion of the first time | given and audience the sense that the words have never been said before, for freshness and spontanaiety |
| swallowing words | what happens if the throat is too tense, losing the clarity of the words |
| IPA | International Phonetic Alphabet: a guide to proper pronunciation |
