Chapter 2 Speech Sounds.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 5. Suprasegmentals The principal suprasegmentals are: Syllable Stress Tone Intonation 5.1 The syllable structure σ Onset Rime Nucleus Coda k r ? k t China kinds four Open syllable: bar, tie Closed syllable: bard, tied Insult Solve Bike Our tie 5.2 Stress Stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. BLACKboard BLACKbird black BOARD black BIRD Compound Phrase Compound vs. Phrase Sentence Stress John bought a red car. JOHN bought a red car. John BOUGHT a red car. John bought a RED car. John bought a red CAR. Grade 8 The distinction between parole and langue was made by A Halliday B Chomsky C Bloomfield D Saussure The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following except ( A lexical B syntactic C phonological D psycholinguistic * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Insult Solve Bike our 5.2 Stress Stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. BLACKboard BLACKbird black BOARD black BIRD Compound Phrase Compound vs. Phrase Sentence Stress John bought a red car. JOHN bought a red car. John BOUGHT a red car. John bought a RED car. John bought a red CAR. 5.3 Intonation Intonation involves the occurrence of recurring fall-rise patterns, each of which is used with a set of relatively consistent meanings, either on single words or on groups of words of varying length. For example, the fall-rise tone in English typically involves the meaning of a contrast within a limited set of items stated explicitly or implicitly. Review From phonetics to phonology 3.