Презентация по фонетике английского языка "Pecularities of English rhythm"

PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH RHYTHM

KEY TERMS

STRESSED

SYLLABLES

- the peaks of prominence

\ Yes, \ no, \ here

UNSTRESSED

SYLLABLES

- non-prominent syllables

(never exist by themselves, are

attached to the stressed syllables)

\ Excellent, to \ morrow,

\ certainly

STRESS-GROUPS

- groups of syllables unified by a stressed syllable (generally a word, often more than a word, sometimes less than a word)

PROCLITICS –

unstressed syllables preceding the stressed one

(pronounced faster than enclitics)

ENCLITICS –

unstressed syllables following the stressed one

We could ׀ go from \ Man chester .

ISOCHRONY -

A phonetic phenomenon when the prominent syllables in an utterance occur at approximately equal periods of time , i.e. it implies more or less the same length of each stressed syllable (when an utterance consists of stressed syllables only) or each stressed group.

׀ Don’t ׀ go \ now.

I’d ׀ like to ׀ give you a ׀ piece of ad \ vise.

To minimize the difference in the length of stress-groups there are two ways:

Compression

of syllable duration

(realized on unstressed syllables)

Lengthening

of syllable duration

(realized on stressed syllables)

The boundaries between rhythmic groups

Sometimes semantic factor can shift the boundary

(unstressed syllables can be attached to the stressed one as proclitics according to the meaning of the word)

He was ׀ laughing  at \ everything.

Generally associated with the stressed syllables

(the group starts with the stressed syllable, unstressed ones are enclitics only)

He was ׀ laughed at  \ everywhere.