Giles Wilkeson Gray

Phonemic microtomy: the minimum duration of perceptible speech sounds.

(1942). Phonemic microtomy: The minimum duration of perceptible speech sounds. Speech Monographs: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 75-90.

Thomas Jefferson's interest in parliamentary practice

It is difficult to know just when and how Jeffersons interest in parliamentary practice was first aroused, but he himself indicates that at an early period of his life he read “a good deal” and took copious notes on the subject. These notes were his “pillar” until he had compiled his own Manual, published first in 1801. During his experience in legislative bodies he had of necessity both to learn and to use the rules and procedures governing such assemblies. This article attempts to give a brief account of his early interest, and to give appropriate credit to those whom Jefferson himself acknowledged as having contributed most substantially to his own understanding of parliamentary practice.

Teaching the Ethics of Speech

In our society today we need, more desperately than we have ever needed them before, more people who, aware of their responsibilities as citizens, and cognizant of the problems and issues that confront our society are ready and qualified to take an active interest in the solution of these problems. These people must recognize the necessity of being fully in f armed. They will have developed the ability to analyze problems and to think for themselves. They

Chapter III: Voice and Articulation Improvement

grammatical structure,&dquo; &dquo;smooth transitions,&dquo; and &dquo;good organization,&dquo; all of which are important in exactly the same degree as ’they are important in writing. No sensible teacher of speech will deny that these are points to be stressed in the development of skill in speaking. Effective use of language requires a reasonable adherence to certain rhetorical principles. But this is not the whole of speech, by any manner of means; there are some fundamental differences which no amount of rationalizing can eradicate. Probably the most basic of these differences, and also the most obvious, lies in the difference between the media of expression. The speaker must not only use &dquo;decent grammatical structure,&dquo; &dquo;smooth transition,&dquo; and &dquo;good organization;&dquo; he adds to these the factor of voice and action, with which he is able to modify the meanings of his words almost at will.