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Title: Stress, Intonation and Rhythm


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Stress, Intonation and Rhythm
  • Chapter 14

2
Stress
  • Deals with stress at the word level
  • 3 levels
  • Weak
  • Secondary
  • Primary
  • IPA symbols mark
  • Secondary
  • Primary

3
How is stress manifested?
  • 3 characteristics
  • Increased pitch level
  • Increased loudness
  • Longer duration

4
Lorna Sikorski
  • http//www.ldsassoc.com/accent/trainer/whylds.html
  • 8 basic patterns of stress

5
Intonation
  • The patterns of stress at the message level.
  • Standard intonation pattern
  • Walk, jump, step, fall
  • Basic, declarative sentence types
  • Wh-question intonation
  • Jump, step, fall
  • Yes/no question intonation
  • Walk, step, jump (rising)

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Rhythm
  • Includes timing and juncture
  • English is stress-timed language
  • Where stress is located affects the timing of the
    utterance
  • Juncture
  • Pauses and hesitations in a sentence that affect
    meaning
  • Brief pauses indicated by / long pauses
    indicated by //.
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