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Intonation of the words in English
It is an space created for people who need to know more about some inonation problems in non native speakers or English Estudents.

19/06/2007 GMT 1

Intonation in english

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Intonation of the words in English. 

The manner how to produce the sound of a word, for example when you pronounce a word that has the same spelling but according to the intonation it has different meanings.

Eg. The word project that it means> Proyecto                                  

The word project that it means> Pronosticar.

It is one of the most common problems that you can find when you produce an English word. For that reason, the majority of people that have this problem of intonation are the nonnative speakers or English students, because when you get a new language is difficult to produce it perfectly but you need some strategies and theories about how you have to produce it in order to practice it m ore and get the enough knowledge for the intonation. However you can to apply some exercises about the production of each sound, so that, the student of the language can be clearer about that problem. In that case is very important and necessary to practice a lot when native speakers if you can. in order to try to imitate the sound and pronunciation of each word at the same time it help you to be more fluently.     
 

What is intonation?

 It is the rise and fall of pitch in our voices, it plays a crucial role in how we Express meaning; there is no language in the World which World be regarded as entirely monotonous. In the process of speaking every syllable, every word, every sentence, is pronounced with the variation in pitch only in very unusual situations we speak with a pitch of the voice which does not change; various approaches to a definition of intonation which appeared throughout the story tried to present a precise explanation of intonation.

http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/esl0108.html

How Intonation Works ?

The full description of intonation patterns is very complex. Here, only some fundamental points will be explained.

  • Within each tone group, there will be the normal English combination of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables.
    • It was the best car for them to buy.
  • Within the tone group, one syllable will be even more strongly stressed than the other stressed syllables. This is called the nuclear syllable.
    • It was the best car for them to buy. (Buy is the nuclear syllable.)
  • The nuclear syllable carries the main focus of information. It also carries any new information.
    • We looked at the hatchback. (Hatchback is new information.)
    • The hatchback was old. (Hatchback is given information. Old is new information.)
  • The usual position for the nuclear syllable is on the final lexical word in the tone group.
    • It had a lot of rust in it.
  • However, the nuclear syllable can appear in other positions if the sense requires it.

 http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/how.html

 

                                                             

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