Principles of Effective Delivery Flashcards
What includes voice control, articulation, pronunciation, body control, and visual aids?
Physical Delivery
The delivery of oral communications may be considered under what two general categories?
Physical Delivery and Verbal Delivery
What are the several distinguishing characteristics of voice control? There are 4.
Pitch, volume, duration, and quality
What is the characteristic of sound as it relates to the musical scale?
Pitch
What certain conditions of pitch can cause communication to suffer?
When the voice is pitched too high, too low, or lacks variety and is monotonous
Speakers may be trouble if their volume is?
Too high, too low, lacking variety or monotomous
What refers to the length of time a sound lasts?
Duration
What are the two chief problems related to duration?
Overlengthen of vowels and eliminating or clipping of vowels
Overlengthiing your vowels will result in?
Drawl
Eliminating or clipping of vowels will result in?
Erratic or staccato speech patterns.
Quality of voice has the nickname what?
fingerprint
What characteristic distinguishes one person’s voice from another?
Quality of voice
What are the 3 common faults in a quality of voice?
Nasality, harshness, and denasality
What is the joining together of constants and vowels that go to make up words?
Articulation
What is the fitting together of sounds according to commonly accepted standards?
Pronounciation