Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell.

  • Bell, Alexander Melville, 1819-1905.
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[1896]
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Credit: Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exercise in reading is, undoubtedly, to pro¬ nounce words phonetically, SYLLABLE BY SYLLABLE. When this analytic power is attained, fluent reading will then be merely a more rapid sequence of the same sounds. In carrying out' the exercise of phonetic syllable-reading, the voice must not be drawled from one syllable to another, but stopped at the end of each, whether long or short. The following is an illustration : III USTRATION OF PHONETIC SYLLABICATION. (On the influence of great actions.— Webster.) u Great ac-tions and stri-king o-(c)cu-(r)ren- ces, ha-ving ek-(x)ci-ted a tem-po-ra-ry ad-mi- ra-tion, o-f(te)n pass a-way and are for-go- (t)t(e)n, be-cause they leave no las-ting re¬ sults, a-(f)fec-ting the wel-fare of co-(in)inu- ni-ties. Such is fre-quent-ly the for-tune of the most bril-(l)iant mi-li-ta-ry a-chieve-ments. Of the ten thou-sand ba-(t)tl(e)s which have been fought; of all the fields fer-ti-lisecl with car-nage; of the ba-(n)ners which have been