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A few words on intonation

• Pitch accent
• The pitch movement that is associated with the
  stressed syllable and the following syllable(s)
  of a word
• it leads to perceptual prominence of the word.
• Types of pitch accent
• Deaccented
• There is no pitch accent where one would
  otherwise be expected.
• A deaccented syllable does not sound prominent
  and is said with phonetic reduction at the
  segmental level.

L H HL L L
H !HL L Maar
waarom is er dan een giraf? But why is there a
giraffe?
H
HL
LH
!HL
H LH H Zijn er meloenen
te veel? Are there too many melons?
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A few words on intonation (contd)

• Phrasing
• Intonational Phrase (IP)
• Boundary marking
• Pause
• Phrase-final syllable lengthening

En toen ik thuiskwam, waren alle vissen
dood. And when I came home, all the fish
were dead.
2 IPs
1 IP