语言学第五单元.pptVIP

Chapter 1 The nature of language Suprasegmental features Segment====phoneme Suprasegment====units larger than phoneme  Suprasegmental features --- the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments ( larger than phoneme) such as syllables, words and sentences: stress tone intonation What is syllable? Ancient Greek: a unit of speech sound consisting of a vowel or a vowel with one or more than one consonant. Dictionary: word or part of a word which contains a vowel sound or consonant acting as a vowel. syllable onset rhyme