Aspiration

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 450.

Open type of syllable (2)

Close type of syllable (1)

Syllabling

Be – bid – bit

Very long – at the end of the word (bee – bi:)

Vowel length – phonetic phenomenon

2) long – vowel + voiced consonant (seed – si:d)

3) short – vowel + voiceless consonant (seat – si:t)

Syllables can be of one/some sounds, equal a word (“I” [ai], 10 [ten]) or word part as in “sofa” ['sәu-fә]. English vowels and sonants are syllable-building. Often syllables are built with the [l], [n] sonants, sometimes [m] as in ['litl], ['se:tn], ['riðm]. They build syllables when apart from syllable-building vowels via a consonant sound, i.e. when not bordering vowels.

a /æ/, e /e/, i /I/, y /I/, o /o/, u /^/, i: /e/

VC(C) bad, rock

VCCV(C)

a /eI/, e /i:/, i /aI/, y /aI/, o /ǝu/, u /ju:/, i: /aI/

CV he, me

CVCV name, rosy

Intonation/Intǝ'neIʃn/

- is variation of pitch, loudness, tempo and timbre /'tæmbrǝ/ of the voice.

Communicative functions:

- delimits utterances in the speech flow

- shows the speaker's attitude

- indicates the communicative type (a statement, a question, an imperative, an exclamation)

Intonation can add deeper meaning to a word.

Intonation is just as important as the way a word is pronounced.

The voiceless plosive [p], [t], [k] consonants are pronounced with aspiration like with some exhalation noise right after voiceless consonants. This weak exhalation comes from air friction with the closing vocal cords to remind the [h] consonant sound – [p^h], [t^h], [k^h]. In forming syllables starting with [p], [t], [k], vowels are pronounced after a pause as in [k^hil], [k^hi:l], not right after these consonants.