Bell also won a second Gold Medal for his additional display at the exposition, Visible Speech developed earlier by his equally famous father Alexander Melville Bell.
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Bell learned acoustics from his father, Alexander Melville Bell, who created diagrams of how the human mouth formed consonants and vowels for his book on Visible Speech.
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The image is a cropped section of what is probably the inside front cover or back cover of " On the Nature and Use of Visible Speech ".
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Bell also won a second " Gold Medal for Visible Speech ", for his additional display at the exposition, helping to propel him to international fame.
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Deaf people can be taught to speak ( sounds )-see Oralism, Visible Speech-as well as to read / write ( see this earlier question ).
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He could decipher Visible Speech representing virtually every language, including Latin, Scottish Gaelic, and even Sanskrit, accurately reciting written tracts without any prior knowledge of their pronunciation.
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"' Visible Speech "'is a system of phonetic symbols developed by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds.
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In 1864 Melville promoted his first works on Visible Speech, in order to help the deaf both learn and improve upon their speech ( since the profoundly deaf could not hear their own pronunciations ).
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Alexander Graham Bell later devised another system of visual cues that also came to be known as visible speech, yet this system did not use symbols written on paper to teach deaf people how to pronounce words.
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In 1864 Melville published his first works on Visible Speech, in order to help the deaf both learn and improve upon their aural speech ( since the profoundly deaf could themselves not hear their own aural pronunciations ).
