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1、October,2013Lecture 6Chapter 2 Stress&Intonation 2.3.6 Suprasegmental features:stress&IntonationnSound contrasts that extend over several segments(phonemes),and such contrasts are called suprasegmentals.nSuprasegmental features:syllable,stress,tone,intonation StressDefinition:nWhen a word has more t
2、han one syllable,one of them will be pronounced with more prominence than others.This brings us to another speech sound phenomenon,that of stress.StressSome points:1 Stress may be a fixed feature of a word,and essentially part of its form.2 It seems to ba a general tendency in English to mark the di
3、fference between nouns and verbs in this way:Nouns have first syllable stress,verbs second.Stress3 Stress is the intensity or prominence given to a syllable.This prominence is considered to ba caused by aditional breath force or muscular action,or length,or a change in pitch.Stress4.A basic distinct
4、ion is made between stressed and unstressed syllables,the former being more prominent than the later usually due to an increase in loudness,length or pitch.5.Classification of stress:word stress&sentence stress Word stressnWhat is word stress?P43nPrimary stress or main stress&secondary stress P44Sen
5、tence stressnStress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable.It may also have a function at the sentence level:nSentence stress is often used to express which part of the sentence is in focus,or which word should receive special emphasis.IntonationDefinition of IntonationnSpeech so
6、unds which are identical as to their place or manner features may differ in length,pitch or loudness.When speaking,people generally raise and lower the pitch of their voice.This phenomenon is called intonation.IntonationnIntonation refers to the rise and fall of the pitch voice in spoken language.n1
7、 System of Intonationn2 Structure of Intonationn3 Types of nuclear tonen4 Functions of intonationSystem of IntonationnAs far as intonation processing concerns,there are in turn three sets of choices.They are:(1)how to break the utterance up into chunks,(2)what is to be accented,and(3)what tones are
8、to be used(Wells 2006:6).Halliday refers to them as tonality,tonicity and tone(i.e.three Ts).System of IntonationnGenerally tonality decides how many pieces of information in one utterance;tonicity decides the focus of information;and tone decides the concrete meaning of information except the lexic
9、al meanings which is decided by words.how the three Ts works in intonation systemStructure of IntonationnIn a tone unit,there are words with different significance.Speakers usually want to make some words stand out as the focus of the information by adding accent and pitch movement.nEach tone unit c
10、ontains one piece of information,namely one focus of information.The nucleus is attached to the focus of information Structure of IntonationStressed syllables in these words are the nucleus of this tone unit and they are obligatory.Syllables before or after the nucleus are optional and are termed as
11、“pre-head”,“head”and“tail”according to the traditional British approach.The most common position for the tonic or nucleus is on the last lexical term(i.e.content words)such as nouns,verbs,adverbs of the tone unit.Structure of Intonationn All the syllables that follow the nucleus compose the tail of
12、the tone unit which is composed of an unspecified number of stressed and unstressed syllables(at least of either)Structure of IntonationnThe head extends from the first accented syllable in the tone unit to the last syllable before the nucleus.The first accented syllable is called the onset.n The pa
13、rt before the onset,is the pre-head.Structure of IntonationnGiven the above,the structure of the tone unit can be summarized as:n(Pre-head)(Head)Nucleus(Tail).nAll the possible tone unit structures:8n PHNT,N,PN,NT,HNT,PNT,PHN,HN.Structure of IntonationExecisenA:A|dog is a|mans|best company.(PHNT)nB:
14、Yes,|it is.(N)(PN)nA:Cats are also|mans|best|company.(NT)nB:|Men|like animals.But I hate|cats.(HNT)(PNT)nA:They|behave mild.|Animals are|mens friends.(PHN)(HN)Structure of IntonationTypes of nuclear tonen(1)Low Falln(2)High Falln(3)Low Risen(4)High Rise n(5)Fall-Risen(6)Rise-Fall n(7)Mid-levelFuncti
15、ons of intonation(1)Grammatical function:Some sentences are ambiguous when written and their ambiguity can only be removed by using differences of tonality and tonicity.Different pitch patterns or tones in English can signal different types of sentences,or different meanings of the same word group.R
16、emoval of ambiguityn下雨天留客天留我不留下雨天留客天留我不留(1)下雨天,留客天,留我不留?)下雨天,留客天,留我不留?(2)下雨天留客,天留,我不留。)下雨天留客,天留,我不留。(3)下雨天留客,天留我不留?)下雨天留客,天留我不留?Removal of ambiguity My sister who lives in Endinburgh has just had twins.n(a)My sister,|who lives in/Endinburgh,|has Ijust had/twins.n(b)My I sister who lives in/Endinburg
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