[PDF] A Practical Introduction To Stress Rhythm And Intonation In English eBook

Author : Harold E. Palmer
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
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ISBN : 9781436574815

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : J. C. Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521865241

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An introduction to intonation - the expression of meaning through rise and fall of pitch in our voices - in English.

Author : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250375

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This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.

Author : Barry Pennock-Speck
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8491346007

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In its second edition, this book offers a practical introduction to the phonology of English, dealing with topics such as articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics, the phonological system of English, English vowels, diphthongs and consonants or speech and prosody. Similarly, the volume includes a glossary of specific terminology, and all chapters present activities to practice what has been learned about the topic, as well as a quiz to test the knowledge acquired. Designed to be used on its own if necessary, this volume provides a wide range of online activities at anglotic.blogs.uv.es, designed specifically for this volume, but could be used as supplementary material for learning English.