Skeptical Face
This article showed up in the Vasta’s Voices Facebook group, and I’ve been ruminating over how (or whether) I should respond to it. I mean, it’s just a fluffy little article for people to toss back and forth on […]
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Why the Detail Model Had to Go
(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 […]
Oh, those wandering GOATs
I think it’s high time we stopped representing the So-Called General American GOAT phoneme as /oʊ̯/. I don’t think it can be very controversial to suggest that [oʊ̯], phonetically-speaking, would be a very unusual vowel to hear from most American […]
CERTIFICATION CLASS of 2012
Today we celebrate the hardy souls that have completed the first-ever Knight-Thompson Speechwork Certification Course. Those of you who have done a six-day workshop can, perhaps, imagine the kind of focus and stamina it took to keep at it for […]
CERTIFICATION!!
This is just a short post to say ‘Welcome!” to our first-ever certification group. It was fourteen years ago that I joined the first Fitzmaurice Voicework Certification class. It seems impossibly long ago, and yet I remember the people, and […]
Welcome to me
I have joined Phil as an author of this blog. All that is lacking is any sense of what I want to say. Stay tuned.Dudley *
Where to start?
Stephanie Philo as Titus Andronicus – 2008 photo by Paul Kennedy “What fool hath added water to the sea?” -Titus Andronicus The prospect of launching a blog, of adding a few drops of virtual ink to the […]