Things I need to work on:
Voice Quality- Less Tense, Key is about right, but maybe a start a note lower
Rhythm- First attempt was focused on sound not on speed. Increase speech speed and watch stresses.
Consonants- Need to be sharper, better enunciated. I need to watch that I'm not dropping or softening coda-consonants, especially [g]. Also watch out for glottal stops in the codas. Should use Pratt to check for degree of aspiration, especially on [p] and [b], as /p/ /b/ /f/ /v/ can all occur as allophones. Previous experimentation has shown that my personal phonetic system is capable of substituting any of the four for variations not heard in English. (Unaspirated [p] can sound like any of them, though not usually [v] to me.)
Vowels- Rounder, laxer. Need to pay special attention to vowel length and pitch. Textbooks say Binisaya (native name for the language family which includes Boholano) has five vowels [ɑ] [e] [i] [o] [u]. [ɪ] is also in there, as well as others.
Connected Speech- Tendency to hesitate moving from coda-[g] or [d] to inital-[k]. I keep trying to hold coda nasals longer than they should be held as well.
Stress- need to identify phrase level stresses and map. Should probably create a meter chart. Also need to determine just how much stress is given to stressed syllables and how stress is primarily expressed.
Basic Audio Quality- Forgot to unplug my laptop when I recorded.
NS- Much, much harder to relax into what I already know of the language accent when it's this cold outside.
First thing to work on is rhythm. I'm going to try a sing along technique, namely speaking while listening to the recording. I will also create a count. One rhythm difficulty I've encountered so far is caused by the fact that these are song lyrics. I'm defaulting to the rhythm of the song instead of the rhythm of the spoken word version.
