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SEGMENTALS AND SUPRASEGMENTALS

Or phonemes
Are speech techniques
These are units of sound that can be analyzed.
1. Examples
Divisible phonemes
1. Are vowels and consonants
Characteristics
1. They are not divisible
2. They are attributes of speech that accompany consonants and vowels.
Are syllables, words or phrases.
Elements of production and perception.
Suprasegmental phonemes
1. Word stress
  1. It is the intensity given to a sound or syllable in speech.
  2. It can be used distinctively.
  3. Examples
2. Intonation
  1. It is the melodic pattern of an utterance.
  2. It is distinguishable by means of the melodic curvature of the voice.
  3. It conveys differences of expressive meaning.
  4. It fulfills a grammatical function.
  5. It is variation in the pitch of the voice.
  6. It can convey incompleteness.
  7. Examples
    1. How afraid I feel!
    2. What do you want to eat ?

SEGMENTALS AND SUPRASEGMENTALS

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