Intonation

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 595.

4 components of intonation: pitch, loudness, tempo (prosodic components of intonation) timbre (not recognized unanimously, according to Sokolova)

The role of intonation in speech:auditory level - realization of into in speech. Each syllable of speech has a special pitch coloring. The general function of intonation - is a communicative function. It differentiates informational content, text structure, meaning of lexical units, stylistic functions, attitude, statements\questions\commands etc.

The sense group is a group of words which is semantically and syntactically complex.

In Phonetics actualized sense groups are called intonation groups.

Intonation patterns containing a number of syllables consist of the following parts:

- the prehead

- the head (the 1^st accented syllable)

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- the nucleus (the last acc.syll.) – is the most important part of the intonation pattern.

- the tail – conveys no particular information

Intonation Pattern:

Nucleus+ stressed and undressed syllables. Intonation pattern serves to actualize syntagms.

Nucleus: the nucleus (the last acc.syll.) – is the most important part of the intonation pattern. A stressed syllable which has a greater prominence than the others. Generally – the last strongly accented syllable of an intonation pattern. Marks a significant change in pitch direction (distinctly up or down). Nuclear tones: low fall, high fall, low rise, high rise, fall rise, rise fall, rise fall rises.

Graphical representation of intonation:

1. Ch. Friesdrawing a line around the sentence to show relative pitch heights
2. D. Bolingerthe syllables are written at different height where up-selected syllables show stress.
3. K .Pikemarks syllables with numbers from 1-4, where 1 is the strongly stressed syllable.
4. O'Connor'sthe one we use