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deep in the weeds

Finding Your Voice

March 1, 2016 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, questions, teaching

Today we bring you a guest post by Eric Armstrong, who teaches voice, speech, and text at York University. As a voice and speech teacher, I’ve been very lucky to have some great role models, mentors, colleagues and master teachers, […]

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An Apology For Rabbit Holes

February 18, 2016 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, Principles (perhaps), roots

Laura Barrett http://laurabarrett.co.uk/Alice-in-Wonderland   It’s true, I do find myself apologizing for my tendency to wander off topic, picking up some apparently tangential thread and tracing it back to the extent of my knowledge on the subject. However, I’m not […]

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This is the KTSpeechblog

June 14, 2014September 9, 2018 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, Dudley, Principles (perhaps), questions, roots

We have so many avenues for communicating to a wider audience and amongst ourselves; what is it that a blog can do that isn’t handled by Facebook, or by Vastavox or by countless other speech/accent/phonetics blogs? Our hope is that this is a […]

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The Bird is the Word

November 14, 2013 Erik Singerdeep in the weeds, Jabba the Hutt, Oral posture, rhoticity, Skinner, Vocal tract posture

Kim Mappleswitch writes: At The High Standards Academy of Dramatic Art (HSADA) we’re required to teach Standard Stage as a basis for learning IPA. I have asked the faculty here how they teach the /ɜ˞/ sound. On one hand – […]

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General American Revisited

July 6, 2012 Philip Thompsonaccents, deep in the weeds, questions, roots, standard language ideology

  I want to share with you a short series of long e-mails between Erik Singer and me on the subject of how to deal with the desire of students to learn some form of “General American.” Erik began the […]

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