JP2006243045A - Vocal exercise fixture - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vocal exercise fixture by which a vocal sound is naturally produced in the inner part of a mouth, more exact pronunciation is produced and a foreign language is learned until a learner can utter the exact pronunciation automatically by uttering a sound in the state in which the learner who does a vocal exercise by holding the fixture in the mouth. <P>SOLUTION: The vocal exercise fixture by which the vocal exercise is done by uttering the sound in the state in which the learner who does the vocal exercise by holding it in the mouth is constituted so that it has an upper front tooth contact part 15 on the top face 13 and a lower front tooth contact part 16 on the bottom face 14 of the fixture main frame 11 and the sound is uttered in the state in which the fixture is sandwiched from the vertical direction by bringing front teeth into contact with the upper front tooth contact part 15 and the lower front tooth contact part 16. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an utterance practice device that learns correct utterance by, for example, uttering in a state in which a utterance practitioner is in the mouth during utterance practice of a foreign language such as English.

  When a Japanese learns a foreign language such as English, French, German, Chinese, etc. in Japan, he / she goes to a conversation school and learns from the teacher's utterance to create pronunciation and sound. , Learn strong and weak accents.

  However, one of the characteristics of foreign languages, especially English, is that sounds are produced using the back of the oral cavity rather than the native language. In other words, if you don't make a sound with the back of your mouth, you won't be able to pronounce it correctly, and you won't be able to tell your partner exactly. Also, since the tone color varies depending on the degree of opening of the mouth and the position of the tongue, it is difficult to speak correctly.

  By the way, in Japan, taking English as an example, in junior high school and high school, almost no pronunciation and listening practice is done, and it is performed as an incidental grammar, composition and reading. . The practice of pronunciation is about the pronunciation practice of the alphabet and words, and the fact is that there is almost no practice of conversation in class.

  In foreign language colleges and universities, pronunciation is practiced by repeating, and there are methods for practicing pronunciation accents and intonation while taking rhythms by hand, and for practicing recording to a tape recorder and repeatedly listening to the ears. It has been broken. In other words, there is currently no known equivalent to an utterance practice device that correctly learns utterances when practicing utterances in foreign languages such as English.

  When learning a foreign language, there is a considerable gap in how to pronounce the native language and the learned language. It is said that the learning function is used to learn how to pronounce, or it can be learned when the language of the country is needed in early childhood and adolescence. Despite the well-known fact that it can be acquired by learning to compensate for the missing elements that match it, there are no known effective speech practice devices and methods.

  Particularly in foreign language learning in Japan, especially English learning, there is a problem of correcting the contradiction between being able to read and not to speak. There is also a problem that it is necessary to be able to practice correct pronunciation and listening within a limited class time in school education.

  The present invention has been made by paying attention to the circumstances as described above, and the purpose of the present invention is to naturally utter the sound in the back of the oral cavity by uttering in the state where the utterance practitioner is in the mouth. The purpose is to provide an utterance practice device that can produce more accurate pronunciation and can learn foreign languages with the body.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an utterance practice device for practicing utterance by uttering in a state where the utterance practitioner is held in his / her mouth. It has a front tooth pad part, and it uttered in the state which applied a front tooth to the upper front tooth pad part and the lower front tooth pad part, and was pinched from the up-and-down direction.

  The upper front tooth rest and the lower front tooth rest are provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the instrument body, and are teeth and an arcuate concave groove along the teeth. The appliance body includes an intraoral protruding portion that protrudes into the oral cavity when the front teeth are applied to the upper anterior tooth rest and the lower anterior tooth rest from above and below, and an oral cavity that protrudes outside the oral cavity and is sandwiched between the upper lip and the lower lip. It has an outer protrusion part. An utterance practice instrument that practice utterance by uttering in the state where the utterance practitioner is in the mouth, having an instrument body, and having an upper front tooth rest on the upper surface and a lower front tooth rest on the lower surface. In addition, it is possible to speak in a state where front teeth are applied to the upper front tooth rest and the lower front tooth rest and sandwiched from above and below, and a mouse cover is provided on the instrument body.

  According to the present invention, a simple structure having an upper front tooth rest on the upper surface of the instrument body and a lower front tooth rest on the lower surface can be provided at low cost and is suitable as a school teaching material. In addition, it is easy to use with the front teeth applied to the upper front teeth rest and the lower front teeth rest and sandwiched from the top and bottom, making it difficult for sound to leak, making it easier to check the sound due to reverberation, and more accurate recognition. There is an effect that pronunciation is possible.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  1 to 3 show a first embodiment of a voice training device, the device body 11 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is a horizontally long plate-like body, and the four corners 12 are formed in an arc shape. For example, the instrument body 11 has a length of about 75 mm, a width of about 20 mm, and a thickness of about 7 mm so that a person can hold it in the mouth. The material is a molded article made of synthetic resin material or wood, light metal, paper, and it is a requirement that it is harmless even if it is added to the mouth, even if the surface is coated with plating, paint, etc. Good.

  An upper front tooth rest 15 and a lower front tooth rest 16 are provided on the front side in the width direction of the upper surface 13 and the lower surface 14 of the instrument main body 11 (oral cavity side when a person holds the mouth). The upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 are arcuate concave grooves along the teeth of the human front teeth, and the depth is preferably about 1 mm. However, the concave groove is not limited to a square groove in cross section, and the cross section may be an arc groove, and is not limited to a concave groove. It may be the instrument body 11 having elasticity so as to be depressed, or the upper front tooth rest part 15 and the lower front tooth rest part 16, and it is desirable that the instrument body 11 does not move when the front tooth is applied and pinched (bited) in the vertical direction.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the front teeth 20 are applied to the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 inside the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 of the instrument body 11 and sandwiched from above and below. In this case, an intraoral protrusion 17 that protrudes into the oral cavity 21 is provided, and an external protrusion 18 that protrudes outside the oral cavity 21 and is sandwiched between the upper lip 22 and the lower lip 23 is provided outside. The intraoral protrusion 17 functions to push the tongue 24 toward the back of the oral cavity 21 by projecting into the oral cavity 21 when the front teeth 20 are applied to the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 and sandwiched from above and below. The extraoral protrusion 18 protrudes outside the oral cavity 21 and is interposed between the upper lip 22 and the lower lip 23 to close the mouth and reduce the leakage of sound.

  Next, how to use the vocalization training device will be described.

  When the instrument main body 11 is held in the hand and the instrument main body 11 is held in the mouth, the upper and lower front teeth 20 are positioned in the arc-shaped concave grooves of the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16, and the instrument main body 11 is released from the hand. Even if it falls, it can hold | maintain in the state pinched (biting) by the up-and-down front teeth 20 from the up-down direction.

  In this state, the intraoral protrusion 17 of the instrument body 11 protrudes into the oral cavity 21, and the extraoral protrusion 18 protrudes outside the oral cavity 21 and is sandwiched between the upper lip 22 and the lower lip 23. Accordingly, the intraoral protrusion 17 projects into the oral cavity 21 when the front teeth 20 are applied to the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 and sandwiched from above and below to push the tongue 24 toward the back of the oral cavity 21. The extraoral protrusion 18 protrudes out of the oral cavity 21 and closes the mouth with the upper lip 22 and the lower lip 23.

  The place where the upper and lower jaws do not move is divided into the upper front part of the mouth, the middle back part, and the lower front part. Since the instrument body 11 exists in the front part of the oral cavity, no sound can be made here, and the position where the tongue 24 is naturally pushed by the back part of the oral cavity 21 to make sound is the back part of the oral cavity. For example, when speaking English, it is a little deeper in the oral cavity 21 than Japanese, so it becomes closer, and if you speak at this position, you can make a sound closer to English. In addition, it is difficult for sound to leak, and it is easy to check the timbre by reverberation, and more accurate recognition and pronunciation can be performed.

  In addition, as a characteristic of English, compared to Japanese, the breathing out is strong and short when consonants are pronounced. The pronunciation of the letters “F” and “V” is made by breathing through a slightly wider area in the lower part of the oral cavity. The pronunciations of the letters “T” and “H” are made by placing the tongue 24 behind the front teeth 20 at the upper front of the mouth, breathing over it, and hitting the teeth. Both consonants and vowels are made relatively far behind the oral cavity 21, and the tendency is particularly strong for vowels.

  In addition, the instrument body 11 in the mouth becomes a resistance when breathing, and a sound with better accent and intonation can be produced. Furthermore, by dividing the passage of breath up and down, the consonant pronunciation can be pronounced separately in the top and bottom, which can be pronounced more efficiently. Since the passage of breath is narrowed, it is possible to pronounce more strongly and shorter, it is easy to feel vibrations, and it is easy to recognize pronunciation. Thus, by dividing the place where the sound is created into several places, pronunciation and sound can be recognized more efficiently and quickly.

  Also, considering the features of utterance, the utterance practice is performed with the instrument body 11 positioned inside and outside of the mouth, so that it can be applied to practice of singing and words, rehabilitation of words for those who have difficulty with words. In this case, the instrument main body 11 is preferably a thick instrument main body 11 that does not limit the position of the tongue that closes the front part of the oral cavity and can widen between the upper jaw and the lower jaw than the aforementioned English instrument main body 11.

  FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment, and the same components as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. In the present embodiment, a substantially oval mouse cover 19 is integrally provided on the opposite side of the rear portion of the instrument body 11, the portion where the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16 are provided. The mouse cover 19 covers the upper lip 22 and the lower lip 23 including the front teeth 20 when the device main body 11 is sandwiched from above and below by applying the front teeth 20 to the upper front tooth rest 15 and the lower front tooth rest 16. 11 can be concealed from being seen by a third party. In addition, there is an effect that the mouse cover 19 contacts the outer periphery of the mouth and holds the instrument body 11 in a stable state.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Moreover, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment.

  The vocal training device of the present invention can be used for welfare and hobby entertainment such as teaching / learning for foreign language vocal training such as English, rehabilitation of words for people with disabilities.

The perspective view of the vocal training device which shows the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The same embodiment is shown, (A) is a top view of a vocal training apparatus, (B) is the figure seen from the arrow a direction. The use state figure of the vocal training device which shows the embodiment. The 2nd Embodiment of this invention is shown, (A) is a perspective view of a vocal training device, (B) is sectional drawing which follows a bb line.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Instrument main body, 15 ... Upper front tooth rest part, 16 ... Lower front tooth rest part, 17 ... Intraoral protrusion part, 18 ... Extraoral protrusion part

Claims (2)

An utterance practice device for practicing utterance by uttering while the utterance practitioner is in the mouth,
It has an upper front tooth rest on the upper surface of the instrument body, and a lower front tooth rest on the lower surface, and the front teeth are applied to the upper front tooth rest and the lower front tooth rest and are uttered while sandwiched from above and below. Voice training device.   The appliance body includes an intraoral protruding portion that protrudes into the oral cavity when the front teeth are applied to the upper anterior tooth rest and the lower anterior tooth rest from above and below, and an oral cavity that protrudes outside the oral cavity and is sandwiched between the upper lip and the lower lip. The vocal training device according to claim 1, further comprising an outer protrusion.

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