Manuale professionale di dizione e pronuncia. Come educare la voce parlata

This manual is addressed to those people that want learn a good pronunciation of Italian language for professional purposes. The first part of volume is devoted to the description of relaxation techniques, a particular attention is given the complex dynamics of respiratory and speech phonation. The second part contains an outline of linguistics and articulatory phonetics. In particular, the section is focused on the relationship between graphemes and phonemes, as well as on the articulatory description of Italian vowels and consonants (this part is integrated by several explicative Figures). The geographical characteristics of pronunciation and a detailed analysis of the norms of diction of the most problematic Italian graphemes, namely <e>, <o>, <s> and <z> were also discussed. The manual is completed by several exercises and by a useful Dictionary of about 2000 lemmas phonetically transcripted according to IPA that provides the diction of high-frequency Italian words having normally a problematic pronunciation. Finally, a CD-Rom contains the audio recordings of many Italian words and sentences. It is an indispensable didactic tool for testing the self-evaluation of the progresses achieved over the time