Intonation: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It
Published on Jun 28, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
In Music:
- pitch - frequency that you sing or play
- tone - frequency that you hear
- key - group of notes on which a scale is based
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In phonology:
- pitch - frequency of sound
- tone - change in pitch (direction)
- key - the "setting" from which a pitch change might begin or end
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Question: What is the difference between rhythm, stress and intonation?
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Intonation: "Meaningful use that speakers make of changes in their voice pitch."
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Prosody of Speech
"By our powers combined"
Basic Unit: Tone Unit
- centers on nucleus (as with stress) -> most prominent syllable = greatest pitch change
- rising and falling tones (also rise-fall and fall-rise)
- particular configuration of tones -> intonation contours
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Video!
"S*** Girls Say, Episode 3"
Functions of Intonation
- grammatical -> difference between statements and questions
- attitudinal -> indicating interest, surprise, boredom, etc. (*high or low involvement*)
- discoursal -> contrasting new information with already known information
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Darling Discourse
- intonation primarily a means for speakers to achieve coherence over stretches of talk
- separates speech into blocks of information (tone units)
- marks the significance of information within and among those units
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Tendencies
- new information - rise
- continuation - rise
- completion - fall
- also: rise-fall & fall-rise
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Keys
- high key - contrast previous utterance
- low key - obvious or by the way (in parentheses)
- mid-key - no change
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QUIZ: Rise or Fall?
- wh- questions
- yes/no questions
- question-tags: chat / check
- lists
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Don't forget:
tendencies, not rules
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Video!
"If Couples' Fights Were Honest"
Post-Test
- the meaningful use that speakers make of changes in their voice pitch
- frequency of sound
- emphasizing certain words to give the effect of regular beats
- emphasizing certain syllables by increasing their loudness, length or pitch
- basic unit of intonation
- changes in pitch
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Bonus Video!
Just for funsies -> "Prisencolinensinainciusol"
