2015-04-17 Communication: sounds

Greg Malivuk
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Boston Marathon on Monday - watch from near Copley, Arlington, or Prudential stations
(remember - no school Monday)

MIT/Cambridge Science Festival on Saturday, including “Robot Zoo” (Cambridge Public Library)
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Homework: p. 161 (vocabulary for sounds)
part 1 b
1 tick (a clock with a pendulum goes “tick tock”)
2 sniff (sneeze, snore, snot, snorkel, snout - all related to the nose and begin with sn-)
(We can call this pattern “sound symbolism”.)
3 click
4 splash
5 bang
6 creak
7 buzz (I would say a mosquito whines, and bees and flies buzz.)
8 hoot (in American English: cars honk or beep, owls hoot)
9 tap
10 slurp
11 hiss
12 drip
13 roar
14 whistle
15 hum
16 slam
17 crunch
18 snore
19 rattle
20 screech, crash
onomatopoeia = words that mean a sound, and which sound similar to it (a clock ticking sounds like “tick”)
sound symbolism = where a particular sound (in a word) represents some other part of the word’s meaning
- sn- words related to the nose
- words with “ee” or “i” sounds representing small things (yip, teeny, tweeter, twitter, tweak)
- words with “oo” or “u” sounds representing big things (woof, huge, gargantuan, woofer)
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part 2a
1 scream
2 yell
3 giggle
4 whisper
5 mumble (difficult to hear especially because you don’t open your lips enough)
(murmur - quiet voice sounds, like people speaking softly across the room)
6 groan
7 stammer (or stutter) - can be because you’re nervous, or it can be a speech impediment
(lisp - the speech impediment where ‘s’ often sounds like ‘th’)
8 sob
9 sigh
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p. 36 - Which sounds in the list do you find the most/least annoying? What other sounds drive you mad in a work or study environment? (share in groups of 3)
Red Bones - BBQ place near Davis Square, many different types of barbecue
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http://www.ambient-mixer.com - you can choose or create selections of background sounds, for studying, sleeping, telling stories, etc.
- Video game music is also very useful for concentration and studying.
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p. 37 3e - what type of music/sound should be in these different environments?
muzak - the brand name for department store versions of songs (no words, much more constant volume, very boring)
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Homework: over the weekend, choose someone that you see on the train, watching the marathon, walking down the street, and make up a story about that person’s life
how old are they? what do they do? where are they from? do they have a family? etc.
We will share these stories on Tuesday.