Carol and I were talking about some new vocabulary words that are hard to pronounce. She spelled one out for me and after verifying that it was right, I asked her how she knew. She said she pictured the written word in her mind's eye. This makes me crazy. I can kind of visualize a word if I try, but it is fuzzy and falls apart upon inspection. I tend to hear my thoughts more than see them, and sometimes my thoughts come with no sensation at all. A little reading about the subject got me thinking. Research shows that we can improve our mind's eye, so can we also develop our mind's voice? If I can imagine nasal sounds and other mysteries of pronunciation coming from my body, could I then learn to physically replicate those sounds that I imagined? I've looked into it and it doesn't seem that the idea of mental pronunciation exists. But that doesn't mean it isn't a thing. I know I'm grasping at straws but I'm desperate and willing to spend some focused time mentally making these sounds that, as of yet, elude me physically. Who knows, maybe I'm on to something.
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