Presentation intonation
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WHAT IS INTONATION?
SPEECH MELODY
4 EXTRA HIGH
3 HIGH red
2 MID / joan is wearing to -
1 LOW day /
WHAT IS INTONATION?
TONE UNIT TONE UNIT (TONALITY)
that woman said the husband had been unfaithful
/that woman / said the husband / had been unfaithful
/that woman said / the husband had been unfaithful /
FORM OF INTONATION
PROMINENCE PROMINENCE (TONICITY)
•New information / i am LISTening/
• Contrast /I am listening/
• Emphasis / i AM listening/
FORM OF INTONATION
TONETONE
FALLING
RISING
FALL RISING
LEVEL
/YES/
/YES/
/YES/
/YES/
FORM OF INTONATION
ACCENTUAL FUNCTIONACCENTUAL FUNCTION
/john will come to the PARty with me
/
/john will come to the party with
ME /
/JOHN will come to the party with
me /
/john WILL come to the party with
me /
/john will COME to the party with
me /
/john will come TO the party with me
/
/john will come to THE party with
me /
/john will go to the party WITH me /
GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONGRAMMATICAL FUNCTION
•DEMARCATIVE (TONALITY)
•/the students who read the chapters easily passed the
exam/
•/the students /who read the chapters/ easily passed
the exam/
•/the students /who read the chapters easily /passed
the exam/
•/the students who read the chapters easily /passed
the exam/
•/the students who read the chapters/ easily passed the
exam/
•SYNTACTIC (TONE)
/they are COMing/
/they are COMing/
AFFIRMATIVE
INTERROGATIVE
ATTITUDINAL FUNCTIONATTITUDINAL FUNCTION
DISCOURSE FUNCTIONDISCOURSE FUNCTION
•FOCUSING / INFORMATIONAL
NEW VS. OLD
• COHESIVE
ORGANIZATION OF SPOKEN DISCOURSE
•INDEXICAL: PERSONAL OR SOCIAL IDENTITY.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL: • ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHTS
•INTUITIVE APPROACH: Interacting with native speakers
• EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION: Conciously analysing and practising the English intonation system
•REALISTIC GOALS:
Functional intelligibility
Functional
communicability Increased
self-confidence
Speech monitoring abilities