Jennifer,
I have a couple of students with the same problem (could it be our
water?). One exercise that has been successful in increasing their
awareness of the activity in the velum is humming on /m/ (the velum is
down), then continue the hum and change to /ba/ (the velum rises and
seals off the velopharyngeal port for the /b/) so that we get something
like /mmbaaaaaaa/. Another exercise is a scale using combinations of
syllables made up of a voiced stop or fricative and a vowel (ba, di, go,
tho, zu, ve etc.).
Hope this helps,
Craig
Burnaby, BC
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