Play%20a%20Tune%20with%20Intonation

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Play a Tune with Intonation

• The central mechanism for conveying meaning and
  attitude

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Chinese and Englishboth use tones

• Ma
• Ma
• Ma
• Ma

• Oh
• Oh
• Oh
• Oh

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Listen for tone changes and corresponding changes
in meaning

• Oh - indifference
• Oh complicity
• Oh I didnt know that!
• Oh - Frustration
• Oh mild surprise
• Oh - Shock and disbelief

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Cook p. 19-21

• Kazoo the sounds and then practice the words,
  phrases, and sentences.
• Concentrate on changing the pitch.

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Intonation indicates, similarly to emphasis

• Meaning
• New information
• Contrast
• Emotion

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Meaning

• Is this your car?
• Is this your car?
• Is this your car?

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New Information

• Brazil, on the other hand,
• The new Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, is expected to
  speak with less economic jargon than Greenspan.

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Contrast

• I have good news and bad news.
• First, the good news.

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Emotion

• I cant believe it!
• I loved that movie!
• The trip was a nightmare!

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Hum, kazoo, or da da da the sentences to hear the
music

• Is this your car?
• Is this your car?
• Is this your car?

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Valentines Day

• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  mine does.
• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  her sisters always do.

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• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  every once in a while he does.
• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, no
  matter what!
• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  he planted a lot in her garden.

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• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  he never forgets Mothers Day!
• Her boyfriend almost never sends her flowers, but
  he showers her with other gifts.

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Quiz Which one indicates that the boyfriend

• Prefers live plants to cut ones.
• Gives her non-floral presents
• Is good in the flower department
• Remembers to send flowers to his mother

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Which indicates that

• Her sisters are more attentive to her needs
• It is a true rarity for her boyfriend to send
  flowers.
• There is actually a slim chance that he might
  send flowers.

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Which words get the higher pitch?

• The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long
  war,"
• yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy
  that envisions U.S. troops

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• deployed often clandestinely,
• in dozens of countries at once
• to fight terrorism and other nontraditional
  threats.
• Major initiatives include
• a 15 percent boost in the number of elite U.S.
  troops
• known as Special Operations Forces,

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• a near-doubling of the capacity
• of unmanned aerial drones
• to gather intelligence,
• a 1.5 billion investment
• to counter a biological attack,
• and the creation of special teams
• to find, track and defuse nuclear bombs and other
  catastrophic weapons.

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Listen for Intonation Patterns

• Jump Up Step Down
• Jump Up Glide Down
• Jump Up Glide Up
• Emphasis pattern
• Series

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Experiment with different patterns and different
emotions for the same text

• Wilma Rudolph was 20th in a family of 22
  children. Born prematurely, her survival was
  doubtful. At 4 years of age she contracted
  scarlet fever and double pneumonia, leaving her
  with a paralyzed leg.

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• By age 9, the metal leg brace, upon which she had
  become dependent was removed and she began to
  walk without it. The doctors were amazed when, at
  age 13, she developed a rhythmic walk. Having
  been told she would never walk again, this little
  girl went on to win three Olympic gold metals.

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• Ronald Reagan was beyond the age at which most
  Americans retire when he ran for the presidency
  in 1980. At age 69, he conducted a vigorous
  campaign, never passed up the chance to defuse
  the issue of his age with humor.

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• On one occasion, he remarked, I want to say that
  I dont mind at all any of the jokes or remarks
  about my age. Thomas Jefferson made a comment
  about the Presidency and age. He said that one
  should not worry about ones exact chronological
  age

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• In reference to his ability to perform ones
  task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped
  worrying.

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Liaisons (Linking)

• Study your language to devise a strategy to help
  you link like Americans.

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Chinese

• Chinese words and parts of words start with
  consonants and end with a vowel or n or ng sound.
  There is no such thing as a final t, l, or b in
  Chinese.
• Mao Tse Tung

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Problems carried over to English

• No word endings
• No word connections
• No distinction between final voiced and unvoiced
  consonants.

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American and Chinese are the same!

• Chinese Accent
• Teo him
• Puw ih aw

• American Speech
• Tellim
• Pü li dout

• Written English
• Tell him
• Pull it out

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Lengthen to voice the consonants

• Eyes
• Bead
• Laid
• Node
• Live
• Bade
• Log
• Seed
• Peas

• Ice
• Beat
• Late
• Note
• Life
• Bait
• Lock
• Seat
• Peace

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Goal

• Speak with sound units rather than word units.
• Disregard spelling!
• Go with the way people speak

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Create casual conversations with these common
phrases
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Forget about spelling!

• W?cher name?
• Kænt chew do (w) it?
• æk chully
• Dont chew lye kit
• Wooden chew
• Hæven chew? Nou, nä chet.
• Ill letcha know
• Knäi getchew? drink?

Hint T Y CH
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D Y J

• Didj? see (y) it?
• Hæo j? lye kit?
• Küj? tell?
• W?jer fæmlee think?
• Didj? find j?r keez?
• Edj? cation
• Ind?vij?(w)el
• Græj?(w)ation
• Græj? (w) ?l

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S Y SH

• Yeshu are
• Inshurance
• æl tryd gesheirage

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Z Y ZH

• hæo w?zhier trip?
• Hoozhier frend?
• Werzhr mäm?
• Wenshr brthday
• Hoo d?zhier her?
• Kæ zhy?(w)?l
• vi zhy?(w)?l

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Colloquial reductions

• Ive gotta go
• Ive gotta book
• Lemme in
• Lemme go
• Wanna banana?
• Ill letcha know.

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• Dija do it?
• Nä chet.
• Ill meechu layder
• Whaddyu think?
• Whajoo do with it?
• Howja like it?
• When ju geddit?
• Why don chu try it?
• Whaddaya waitin for?

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• Howzit going?
• Whatcha doin?
• Wheres the whatchamacallit?
• Wheres whatsizname?
• How bout it?
• Doancha geddit?

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Tags

• For questions, the intonation rises, doesnt it?
• For confirmation, the intonation drops, doesnt
  it.

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• Shühn näi?
• Woe knee?
• Didn knee?
• Has a knee?
• Is a knee?
• Is a nit?
• Duzza nit?
• Are näi?
• Wone chew?
• Done chew?
• Can chew?

• Didee?
• Duzzy?
• Wuzzy?
• Hazzy?
• Izzy?
• Willy?
• Woody?
• Cüjoo?
• Wüjoo?
• Canny?
• Wooden chew?

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Final Sentence

• The dime.
• The dime easier
• They tell me the dime easier
• They tell me the dime easier to understand
• They tell me that Im easier to understand.