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Dudley

Why the Detail Model Had to Go

February 4, 2016September 23, 2019 Erik SingerDudley, Principles (perhaps), roots, Skinner, standard language ideology, Uncategorized

(Roots, part III) The teaching of any prescriptive speech pattern as some sort of basis or ‘neutral’ will inevitably encode privilege and elitism, alienate actors from nonstandard speech backgrounds, and actively impede the acquisition of accurate and detailed perception and […]

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Roots, Part II

November 20, 2014September 23, 2019 Erik SingerDudley, linguistics, phonetics, Principles (perhaps), roots, Skinner

  The other day I wrote a bit about some of the intellectual and linguistic foundations of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Today I’d like to write a bit about how Dudley found his way from there to here, as it were, and […]

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Roots

November 7, 2014September 23, 2019 Erik SingerDudley, linguistics, Principles (perhaps), roots, standard language ideology

I’ve been thinking a lot this fall about the roots of this work. Unitarian Universalists like to talk about roots and wings. Roots ground you, connect you to where you’ve come from and what’s important. They form your support system […]

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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 Name of Action

December 11, 2013 Erik Singeracting, action, Dudley, Earle Gister, Oral posture, physicality, Principles (perhaps), Vocal tract posture

  I studied acting with the great Earle Gister some years back. He was a brilliant man, and his way of teaching and speaking about acting resonated deeply with me. It felt, at the time, like the missing piece of […]

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Complexity nourishes art

September 12, 2013 Erik SingerDudley, Oral posture, Principles (perhaps), Vocal tract posture

I taught my first classes of the new year this week, so I’ve been thinking a lot about Dudley. I miss him tremendously, as so many of us do. But at the same time, I feel incredibly fortunate not just […]

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Schwiznet and glit

August 14, 2013 Philip ThompsonDudley, Omnish

  Dudley Knight  1939-2013  It seems likely that anyone coming to this blog at this point will have heard of Dudley’s passing. If not, here’s what happened: On June 25th, 2013, walking home from rehearsal, on a beautiful cool night […]

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