Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Segmental
vs.
Suprasegmental
- In speech,
a segment
is
- any one of the discrete
units that occur in a
sequence of sounds
- which can be broken down into phonemes,
- syllables or words in
spoken language
- through a process
called speech
segmentation.
- Examples:
- An example
of segmental
phonemes are
the sounds of
"a," "e," "i,"
"o," and "u."
- Suprasegmental
phonology
- refers to
intonation
patterns
- stress placement
- and rhythm
in spoken
language;
- also called
prosody.
- Word Stress
- In polysyllabic
words, one or
more syllables
- tend to have a
- higher
emphasis
on them
- than others.
- Sentence stress
- within a
larger
unit
- Emphasize
particular
words
- least 3
levels of
accentuation,
- We can
distinguish
at
- distinguish
between
homograph
verbs and
nouns
- primary (indicated by ˈ), secondary (indicated by ˌ) and unstressed
- Examples:
- Stress
on
penultimate
syllable
- GRAPHic
geoGRAPHic
geoLOGic
- Intonation
- It is the vibrational frequency
- of the vocal cords.
- which is modulated to
- achieve particular effects
- on the speaker.
- These effects
may be
attitudinal
- A further function of
intonation is to convey
incompleteness
- Examples:
- In talking to
- a cat, a dog or
a baby, you
- may adopt a
particular set
- of
suprasegmentals.