A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . 30 ELOCUTION. CHAPTER VI. DEFECTIVE ARTICULATION. Articulation is defective when one or more ele-ments of a word are omitted, or imperfectly formed; orwhen one element is substituted for another. Defective articulation is exceedingly common : per-haps there is not one individual in ten thousand whosearticulation is perfect. This arises from the neglect ofa proper gymnastic training of the organs of speech inchildhood. As soon as children are capable of imitatingsounds, they
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . 30 ELOCUTION. CHAPTER VI. DEFECTIVE ARTICULATION. Articulation is defective when one or more ele-ments of a word are omitted, or imperfectly formed; orwhen one element is substituted for another. Defective articulation is exceedingly common : per-haps there is not one individual in ten thousand whosearticulation is perfect. This arises from the neglect ofa proper gymnastic training of the organs of speech inchildhood. As soon as children are capable of imitatingsounds, they should be taught the elements of vocallanguage; and, to facilitate their acquisition of thisknowledge, they should be made to exercise before amirror, so as to compare the movements of their ownlips with those of the lips of their instructor. By pur-suing this course, a good foundation will be laid for aperfect and graceful articulation. In that part of this work which consists of Exercisesin Reading and Declamation, all, or nearly all, theletters representing sounds liable to be omitted, or im-perfectly articulate
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