General idea of intonation as an embodiment of suprasegmental phenomena

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 563.

English words may have a primary stress and a secondary one. Some parts of speech have two equivalent stresses:

→ compound adjectives: absent-minded, dark-eyed

→ phrasal verbs: to get on, to give up

The nature of Word Stress is very complex. Word Stress presupposes such factors as: force, tone, length, vowel color. In such European languages as Russian, German, French, English stress has a dynamic nature (a force character). Musical/ tone word stress may be found in Chinese, Japanese.

According to the place of word stress it may be free or fixed. Fixed stress falls on a particular syllable in a polysyllabic word.

- the last syllable in French

- the last but one syllable I Polish

- the first syllable in Finish and Czech.

Russian and English have free word stress. The opposition of the stress may change to distinguish different parts of speech and members of paradigms (‘object – to ob'ject)

Allophones are subdivided into principal and subsidiary. Principal allophones are not influenced by the neighboring sounds (cat, make). Subsidiary allophones are subjected to assimilation or accommodation (triumph, fond, kettle). Allophones may be also:

→ Positional (traditionally used in certain positions)

→ Combinatory (a result of assimilation/accommodation)