TONE, STRESS AND INTONATION

Question 1

PROSODY

Answer 1

variation in pitch (the most important one among these), loudness and duration

Question 2

LOUDNESS

Answer 2

what we hear; loud sounds are more prominent

Question 3

PROSODIC FEATURES

Answer 3

tone, stress, intonation

Question 4

TONE

Answer 4

use of suprasegmental features, especially pitch, at wood level for lexical meaning; different pitch patterns on the same segmental features mean di different words; Igala (Nigeria): lexical minimal pairs distinguished by tone.

Question 5

REGISTER TONE LANGUAGES

Answer 5

typically have level High Mid or Low tones (African tone languages, Yoruba)

Question 6

CONTOUR TONE LANGUAGES

Answer 6

typically have tones with pitch modulation – not the same pitch throughout (East Asian languages, Cantonese)

Question 7

STRESS

Answer 7

use of suprasegmental features at the word level; in stress languages every word has at least one syllable which is more prominent than the others; fixed/variable.

Question 8

INTONATION

Answer 8

use of suprasegmental features, especially pitch, across an utterance, can change meaning;

Question 9

PRODUCTION CODE

Answer 9

Falling pitch is associated with phrase endings (exceptions, dialects in Northern England)

Question 10

FREQUENCY CODE

Answer 10

Rising pitch is often associated with questions and uncertainty