Focus on the Suprasegmentals as Tools for Speech and Theater - Stress, Pitch, Volume, Enunciation, etc.

1. Focus on the Suprasegmentals as
Tools for Speech and Theater –
Stress, Pitch, Volume, Enunciation,
etc.
By: Jenefer Camero
& Dezza Mae Castillo

2. SUPRASEGMENTALS
The term suprasegmental was invented to refer to aspects of
sound that did not seem to be properties of individual
segments (i.e. the vowels and consonants of which speech is
composed).
Suprasegmental applies to several different linguistic
phenomena (including pitch, duration, and loudness). Which
are often regarded as the "musical" aspects of speech.

3. SUPRASEGMENTALS
Without supra-segmental features superimposed on the
segmental features, a continuous speech can also convey
meaning but often loses the effectiveness of the message being
conveyed."
Suprasegmentals are important for marking all kinds of
meanings, in particular speakers' attitudes or stances to what
they are saying (or the person they are saying it to), and in
marking out how one utterance relates to another

4. Suprasegmental
Features
Stress
Enunciation
Volume
Pitch
Rhythm

5. - is the degree of emphasis given a sound or syllable in speech,
also called lexical stress or word stress. Unlike some other
languages, English has variable stress. This means that stress
patterns can help distinguish the meanings of two words or
phrases that otherwise appear to be the same.
Stress

6. Example:
IMport Coffee is an import from Brazil.
imPORT We would like to import more
coffee all over Brazil.

7. Example:
Ana present her painting as a
present for the debutant.

8. In speech, Pitch is the relative highness or lowness of a tone as
perceived by the ear, which depends on the number of
vibrations per second produced by the vocal cords. Pitch is the
main acoustic correlate of tone and intonation.
Pitch is the vocal element that determines the accentuation and
prominence of speech.
PITCH

9. Example:
Sam got an A in Calculus.
Sam got an A in Calculus!
Sam got an A in Calculus?
Sam? got an A? in Calculus?

10. - refers to the loudness or softness of sound. This is
controlled bythe diaphragm. To speak loudly, one must
increase the amount of air released when speaking.
Varying the volume of the voice can help keep the audience’s
attention; changing volume can help call attention to
important ideas.
VOLUME

11. - is a manner of speaking where the sounds or words are under-
articulated, slurred, or blended together. Adults with
enunciation concerns tend to move their mouths less than the
average person when speaking, or speak at a faster rate than
average.
ENUNCIATION

12. - is the sense of movement in speech, marked by the
stress, timing, and quantity of syllables. Adjective:
rhythmic. In poetics, rhythm is the recurring alternation
of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and
silence in sentences or lines of verse.
RHYTHM

13. -temporary stoppage of the flow in speech.
-It also suggests the need to stop/pause to obtain clarity
in thought relation.
-is the manner of moving (transition) between two
successive syllables in speech. An important type of
juncture is the suprasegmental phonemic cue by means
of which a listener can distinguish between two
otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have
different meanings.
JUNCTURE

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