Module 7 Flashcards
Suprasegmentals and Prosody
What areas does the suprasegmental level cover?
Emphasis, Emotion, Loudness, Pitch
Is prosody considered grammatical or non-gramatical?
Grammatical
Is paralinguistics considered grammatical or non-grammatical?
Non-grammatical
What are the Acoustic-Perceptual properties?
Pitch, Loudness, Duration
What is a syllable?
A unit of speech used to construct words
What is sonority?
The level of sound energy
Define the sonority sequencing principle?
Sonority inclines and declines in a word
What are phonotactics?
Rules governing phonemes and syllable positions
How are consonants and vowels broken into syllables?
It is governed by the maximal onset principle
What is the maximal onset principle?
Consonants are the onsets unless a phonotactically illegal sequence occurs.
What is a prosodic foot?
Incorporates stress patterns, a foot is a group of syllables with one stressed syllable and optional unstressed syllables
What pattern does a trochaic language follow?
The strong-weak pattern
What does a lambic language follow?
The weak-strong pattern
What is an un-footed syllable?
Syllable that stands alone
What is intonation?
Pattern/melody of pitch changes in an utterance
When are pitch inclinations used?
For questions
What is lexical stress?
Word stress pattern
What is contrastive stress?
Put the stress on one word of a sentence in order to draw attention
What is an intonational phrase?
a group of words with its own prosodic contour
What are some examples of paralinguistics?
emotion and irony
