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Segmental vs. Suprasegmental
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Phonetics. Saya Vásquez
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Segmental vs. Suprasegmental
Segmental
Phoneme
A phoneme is a minimal unit of articulation whose sound can be vowel or consonant.
Vowels
12 Vowel phonemes
They are classified into:
Short vowels
Examples
/I/: it, hit.
/e/:end, test.
Long vowels
Examples
/ā/: baby, snail.
/i:/: bee, me, beach.
Consonants
24 Consonant phonemes
Examples
g: give, flag, go.
k: black, cat, back.
h: how, hellow
l: leg, little, lamp
Suprasegmental or Prosodic
It is the way in which a
set of segments
Syllables ,words or phrases
stu-dent.
student.
That includes characteristics such as word stress and intonation.
Word stress
The syllables of a word have a particular one that sounds louder or more stressed.
There are two very important rules about word stress:
One word cannot have two stresses.
The stress is always on a vowel.
Examples:
Derived words but with a different stress.
PHO-TO-GRAPH
PHO-TO-GRAPH-ER
PHO-TO-GRAPH-IC
Intonation
The vibrational frequency of the vocal cords.
They are modulated to achieve particular effects on the speaker.
Attitudinal effct.
Conveys differences of expressive meaning.
E.g : Surprise, anger, caution.
Declarative/imperative
A falling intonation contour.
Positive
Examples:
Stop!
Give her coffee.
Negative
Examples:
Do not stop!
Don't give her coffee.
Interrogative
A rising intonation contour.
Examples:
Did you take your vitamin this morning?
Did you go to the game Friday night?
Variation in pitch level of voice.
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