Theoretical phonetics. Study guide for second year students. Борискина О.О - 38 стр.

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Part 5 Intonation in Discourse

Issues to Study and Discuss:
    1. Intonation VS. Prosody VS. Suprasegmental Features of Language.
    2. Approaches to the Study of Intonation.
    3. Functions of Intonation:
          3.1 Conversation management function of intonation.
          3.2 Information management function of intonation.
          3.3 Social functions of intonation.
    4. The Framework for Intonation:
          4.1 Prominence. Sentence stress.
          4.2 Pitch of the voice, melody, tone.
          4.3 Rhythm; stress-time nature of spoken English; strong and weak
          forms.
          4.4 Temporal characteristics (duration, tempo, pausation).
          4.5 Timbre (voice quality).
    5. Intonation patterns.

Tasks

Task1. Is the term Intonation internationally recognized?
What approach to the study of intonation appeals to you?
Ref. [Соколова 2003, pp.47-211; Celcia-M., 1996, SRM, pp. 54-68;
Леонтьева, 1988, SRM, pp. 69-77]

Task2. Compare the North American school (M. Celce-M., C. Prator) and the
British school (D. Jones) in their understanding of intonation.
Intonation is pitch variations, or speech melody. It manifests itself in the
delimitative function within a sentence and at its end. The pitch of the voice
with which a voiced sound is pronounced is called its intonation. In connected
speech the voice-pitch is continually rising and falling. These variations produce
intonations which may be described as “tunes”, or ‘patterns’ or ‘contours’ (D.
Jones,2002).
If pitch represents the individual tones of speech, then intonation can be thought
of as the entire melodic line. Intonation involves the rising and falling of the
voice to various pitch levels during the articulation of an utterance (M. Celce-
M., 1996).
Intonation is the tune of what we say. Intonation is the combination of musical
tones (C. Prator, 1985).

Task3. What are the CORE components of intonation according to the Moscow
Phonetic School?
• Proofread the definition of intonation in the broad sense.
Intonation is a complex unity of segmental and non-segmental, or prosodic
features of language: 1. melody; 2. pitch of the voice; 3. word stress, sentence