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ENS 501G English Phonetics II. In linguistics, as you would expect, we talk about language quite a lot.
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ENS 501G English Phonetics II In linguistics, as you would expect, we talk about language quite a lot. Normally, language does not talk about itself. Georg Gadamer , in "Man and Language", has suggested that one of the essential properties of language is that its users are ideally unaware of it. In discussing the price of petrol, people are usually unaware of the words they are speaking and hearing – the train of ideas occupies their conscious minds, or at least the concepts involved are manifested at a higher level of consciousness than the linguistic forms. But when discussing and writing about linguistics we are applying language to itself, and the train of ideas consciously moves into areas which are normally unconscious. This produces some interesting effects.
ENS 501G English Phonetics II • Segmental phonology • Word prosody • Sentence prosody • Discourse prosody • Metrical prosody • intensity (loudness) • pitch (intonation) Etymonline (look up segment) (Look up prosody)
ban • Segmental phonology Features: manner: plosive place: bilabial voicing: voiced manner: nasal place: alveolar voicing: voiced manner: vowel place: front place: open voiced unrounded
Segmental phonology ban lips together phonation (voicing) nasal passage open tongue on alveolar ridge
Segmental phonology ban • Are phonemes “really there”? • Do illiterate language users segment language? • The “idealism” of phonology
nasal passage open Segmental phonology h0um diphthong starting mid-centtre and moving towards close back phonation (voicing) lips together
Features which span more than one segment are known as suprasegmental features • Prosody as a complex of suprasegmental features
Prosody • Segmental phonology • Word prosody • Sentence prosody • Discourse prosody • Metrical prosody • intensity (loudness) • pitch (intonation) Etymonline (look up prosody)
Word Prosody • In any word, only one syllable takes the main stress. penny deny photograph photography
Word Prosody Monument Picadilly Southgate South Hamstead Southampton Westminster Avonbridge Aberdeen Cockfosters Embankment Edgware Road Googe Street Bakerloo Heathrow Marble Arch Marylebone
Word Prosody • Roach, chapters 10 and 11 • Handout on Word Stress
Prosody • intensity (loudness) • pitch (intonation) • Word prosody • Sentence prosody • Discourse prosody • Metrical prosody
Sentence Prosody • Word categories (Parts of Speech) • Weak syllables and weak forms • Tone Group (Intonation Phrase) • Nucleus and nucleus position • Tones on the nucleus • Preheads, Heads and Tails
Prosody • intensity (loudness) • pitch (intonation) • Word prosody • Sentence prosody • Discourse prosody • Metrical prosody
Discourse Prosody • Old and new information • Broad and Narrow Focus • Deaccentuation
Prosody • intensity (loudness) • pitch (intonation) • Word prosody • Sentence prosody • Discourse prosody • Metrical prosody
Metrical Prosody • Old Germanic metre • Classical English metres • Modern poetry