Intonation Patterns.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 658.

The three prosodic components, such as pitch, loudness and tempoare realized in the process of speech together.

Each syllable of speech chain has a special colouring. Some of the syllables have significant moves of tone up and down. Each syllable bears a definite amount of loudness. Pitch movements are inseparably connected with loudness. Together with the tempo of speech they form an intonation pattern which is the basic unit of intonation.

An intonation patterncontains one nucleus and may contain other stressed or unstressed syllables normally preceeding or following the nucleus. The boundaries of an intonation pattern may be marked by stops of phonation, that is temporal pauses.

Intonation patterns serve to actualize syntagms in oral speech.

The intonation pattern is divided into several parts:

1. pre-head (unaccented syllables before the first accented ones);
2. head(from the first stressed syllable up to the nucleus);
3. nucleus(the kinetic tone);
4. tail(unstressed syllables after the nucleus);

The nuclear tone is the most important part of the intonation pattern without which the latter cannot exist at all. On the other hand an intonation pattern may consist of one syllable which is its nucleus.

According to “A Course of English Intonation” by J.D.O'Connor, the basic tunes of English are: the Glide Down, the Interrupted Glide Down, the High Jump, the Glide Up, the High Dive.

Prof.Arakin introduces one more basic tone : the High Rise.