A brief account.

1. WHAT IS INTONATION?
SPEECH MELODY

2. 4 EXTRA HIGH
3 HIGH red
2 MID / joan is wearing to -
1 LOW day /

3. WHAT IS INTONATION?

4. FORM OF INTONATION
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 /

5. FORM OF INTONATION
PROMINENCE (TONICITY)
•New information / i am LISTening/
• Contrast /I am listening/
• Emphasis / i AM listening/

6. FORM OF INTONATION
TONE
FALLING /YES/
RISING /YES/
FALL RISING
/YES/
LEVEL
/YES/

7. ACCENTUAL 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 /

8. GRAMMATICAL 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/

9. •SYNTACTIC (TONE)
INTERROGATIVE
/they are COMing/
/they are COMing/
AFFIRMATIVE

10. ATTITUDINAL FUNCTION

11. DISCOURSE FUNCTION
•FOCUSING / INFORMATIONAL
NEW VS. OLD
• COHESIVE
ORGANIZATION OF SPOKEN DISCOURSE

12. •INDEXICAL:
PERSONAL OR SOCIAL IDENTITY.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL:
• ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHTS

13. •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