Week 6: Thought Groups and Intotation Flashcards
1
Q
Maximal Efficiency Assimilation
A
make adjacent sounds more like each other ex: ten bucks = tembucks
2
Q
Maximal Efficiency Elision
A
leave the sound out altogether
3
Q
Maximal Efficiency Linking
A
insert a sound to make a smoother transition
4
Q
Prominence
A
each thought group has a brief moment of peak energy as the speaker pronounces more forcefully a key word or syllable called a sentence stress or prominence ex: this is kevin MURphy
5
Q
Intotation
A
emphasis on certain words or parts of certain words ex; I SAID she did it
