What’s in a Pedagogy?
In talking with Master Teacher Andrea Caban about Knight-Thompson Speechwork and how we teach it, I’ve begun to reflect on […]
phonetics
Writing a Book on Accents
From Tyler: I’ve been thinking lately about writing a book on accent acquisition. Which has mostly resulted in me
accents, Oral posture, phonetics, physicality, questions, roots, teaching, transcription, Vocal tract posture
Actors Be Damned! (or: What I Don’t Think)—What Is the Value of (Super) Narrow Transcription?
All actors should learn narrow transcription. And I mean super narrow, with multiple diacritics hanging off of every symbol like
conventions, linguistics, phonetics, questions, standard language ideology, The Empty Chart, transcription
What is the Value of Broad Transcription?
This blog post is an open inquiry: what is the value of teaching broad transcription to actors these days? Every
accents, phonetics
Collecting accents
I wrote a thing. Two things, I guess: two short texts for eliciting useful accent samples. Here they are: Dali’s
Dudley, linguistics, phonetics, Principles (perhaps), roots, Skinner
Roots, Part II
The other day I wrote a bit about some of the intellectual and linguistic foundations of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Today
conventions, phonetics, rhoticity, transcription
Rhoticity, Part Two: Symbol Confusion
This post is a part two of an answer to a question posed by Kim Mappleswitch. Part one is
phonetics, transcription
Narrow transcription
Many, perhaps most people who come and take a Knight-Thompson workshop have already studied phonetics before in some form. Many