PROSODIC UNITES.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 624.

1) The syllable is the smallest prosodic unit. It's features depend on its position in bigger units.

2)A rhythmic groups are :

a) a stressed syllable

b) a stressed syllable with some unstressed one group around it.

The stressed syllable is the nucleus of the rhythmic group. The unstressed syllables are clitics, the unstressed syllables before nucleus are called proclitics, the unstressed syllables after the nucleus are called enclitics.

3)Intonation group is a stretch of speech between 2 pauses. Intonation group may coincide with a sentence but it doesn't have to coincide with it.

Ex. Yesterday/ I came home very ‘late//.

Intonation group has 1 obligatory element- nucleus. It is a stressed syllable in the most important word. This syllable is not only stressed but also marked by the movement (fall, rise or their combinations) of the tone. There are also optional elements. They are pre-head- all the unstressed syllables before the first stressed one, head –all the stressed and unstressed syllables before the nucleus beginning with the first stressed one, tail- all the unstressed or partially stressed syllables after the nucleus.

Ex. Yesterday I came home very late.

The other name for intonation group- syntagme.

4)Utterance. It may coincide with the intonation group but it doesn't have to.

Ex. I have a pat.

Yesterday/ I came home very late.

The utterance is a complete thought, it has its grammatical structure and prosodic structure , but unlike a sentence it doesn't have to be grammatically correct,because its meaning can be expressed through intonation as well as through gramma and grammatical flaws are compensated by intonation.