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Accentuation in english
When speaking English, some parts of an utterance are given more emphasis than others through prominence. Prominence can occur at the syllable or sentence level and involves four aspects: pitch, quality, quantity, and stress. Pitch relates to vocal cord vibration and perceived high or low tones. Quality involves resonator shape and how distinct sounds are perceived. Quantity refers to sound length. Stress is caused by greater muscular energy and perceived as loudness. Accent is assigned based on a syllable's ability to initiate a pitch movement, whereas prominence can involve other factors without pitch variation. Words and compounds can have primary, secondary, or unaccented syllables. Accent placement helps distinguish meanings. Prominence is modified in connected speech through
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- 2. Prominence When wespeak we give more emphasis to some parts of an utterance than others We can make this happen at syllable level or at sentence level The four different aspects to consider in prominence are: Pitch Quality Quantity Stress
- 3. Prominence Pitch Articulatorily dependsmainly on the tensión and consequent rate of vibration of the vocal folds. Auditorily, it is that quality of a sound, in terms of which it can be placed on a scale running from high to low, or acute to grave.
- 4. Prominence Quality Articulatorily itdepends on the shape of the resonators. Auditorily it is that feature it terms of which two sounds , similarly presented and having the same loudness, quantity and pitch, are perceived as dissimilar (ex. /s/ and /∫/
- 5. Prominence Quantity Auditorily itis that property of a sound that enables us to place it on a scale going from long to short only by using our ears. From the perceptual point of view it is refeered to as length
- 6. Prominence Stress Articulatorily itis caused by greater muscular energy and breath force Auditorily, it is percieved as loudness and it can be dfined as that property of a sound that enables us to place it on a scale going from loud to soft only by using our ears. So the speaker feels this features as extra energy and the listener as extra loudness
- 7. Prominence All these elementsdescribed before can play a part in making a syllable stand out with respect to its neighbours. They do not play an equally important role, though, nor are all four always present together
- 9. Accent When a syllableis a starter of pitch movement , or has the natural potential to be one, we shall say that is accented, irrespective of whatever other elements are present. When any of the other elements causing prominence are present but the syllable is incapable of acting as a pitch movement initiator, we shall simply say that is prominent.
- 10. Accent In general termsthen we will have different types or levels of accent and those are: Primary Accent Secondary Accent Prominent by itseld Unaccented
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