Prosody

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 492.

Prosody and Punctuation

When more excited

When emotionally neutral

• Nuckeus:LF, LR
• Heads:low, falling
• Pre-heads:low
• Pitch:patterns are narrowed

• Nucleus:HF, HR, RF
• Scales:stepping, sliding
• Pre-heads:higher
• Pitch:patterns are widened
• Accidental risesare often in use

Prosody (Intonation)is a complex unity of sentence stress, rhythm, tempo, speech melody and voice timbre. Each syllable in a sense group is pronounced on a certain pitch level and bears a definite amount of loudness. Pitch movements are inseparably connected with loudness; together with the tempo of speech they form intonation patterns. Intonation patterns serve to actualize sense groups.

The systematic study of versification which covers the principles of metre, rhythm, rhyme and stanza forms; or a particular system of versification. In linguistics the term is applied to patterns of stress and intonation in ordinary human speech. Prosody in the literary sense is also known as metrics.

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Suprasegmenatal phenomenon of sound

5 basic parameters:

pausation

pitch-movement

tempo

loudness = the attribute of a sound that determines the magnitude of the auditory sensation produced and that primarily depends on the amplitude of the sound wave involved

diapason

Full stop -lowest part of diapason and the end of the glide down into two completely different ways

LF –completeness

HF –statement with special emotional coloring