ENS 501G English Phonetics II In linguistics, as you would expect, we talk about language quite a lot. Normally, language does not talk about itself. Georg Gadamer , in "Man and Language", has suggested that one of the essential properties of language is that its users are ideally unaware of it. In discussing the price of petrol, people are usually unaware of the words they are speaking and hearing – the train of ideas occupies their conscious minds, or at least the concepts involved are manifested at a higher level of consciousness than the linguistic forms. But when discussing and writing about linguistics we are applying language to itself, and the train of ideas consciously moves into areas which are normally unconscious. This produces some interesting effects.
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ENS 501G English Phonetics II In linguistics, as you would expect, we talk about language quite a lot. Normally, language does not talk about itself. Georg Gadamer , in "Man and Language", has suggested that one of the essential properties of language is that its users are ideally unaware of it. In discussing the price of petrol, people are usually unaware of the words they are speaking and hearing – the train of ideas occupies their conscious minds, or at least the concepts involved are manifested at a higher level of consciousness than the linguistic forms. But when discussing and writing about linguistics we are applying language to itself, and the train of ideas consciously moves into areas which are normally unconscious. This produces some interesting effects.
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Word Prosody
• Roach, chapters 10 and 11• Handout on Word Stress
• Word prosody• Sentence prosody• Discourse prosody• Metrical prosody
• intensity (loudness)• pitch (intonation)
Prosody
Sentence Prosody
• Word categories (Parts of Speech)• Weak syllables and weak forms• Tone Group (Intonation Phrase)• Nucleus and nucleus position• Tones on the nucleus• Preheads, Heads and Tails
• Word prosody• Sentence prosody• Discourse prosody• Metrical prosody
• intensity (loudness)• pitch (intonation)
Prosody
Discourse Prosody
• Old and new information• Broad and Narrow Focus• Deaccentuation
• Word prosody• Sentence prosody• Discourse prosody• Metrical prosody
• intensity (loudness)• pitch (intonation)
Prosody
Metrical Prosody
• Old Germanic metre• Classical English metres• Modern poetry
