Suprasegmental Aspects of Speech

Syllables
- Prominence
- Parts of syllable - onset, coda, nucleus rhyme
Stress
- Contrastive stress
- Lexical stress
- Degrees of stress?
- Stress in sentences
Intonation and pitch
- Pitch changes within phrase
- Tonic accent
- Tone language

Objectives

Define the parts of the syllable (onset, rhyme, nucleus, and coda)
Draw syllable trees for given syllables
Explain the term suprasegmental and list several suprasegmental aspects of speech
List the ways in which speakers make stressed syllables more prominent than neighboring syllables
Indicate lexical stress and stress in sentences using stress marks
Explain the difference in languages that have fixed stress and variable stress
Describe the difference between syllable-timed and stress-timed languages
Define intonation and describe the uses of intonation in English
Using ToBI symbols, identify pitch-accented syllables on a fundamental frequency contour
Describe ToBI phrase and boundary tone sequences for common utterance types (statements, yes-no questions, listing)