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English pronunciation, Phonetics, Phonology, Secondary stress is less…
English pronunciation
How the language sounds
Phonetics
Studies the characteristics of individuals sounds
vowels
and
consonants
the
phonemes
(44)
they build the
words
they can be a single
syllable
A vowel
or a conbination of them
the general formula is:
consonant (s) + vowel + consonant(s)
The consonant parts aren't always necessary but if they are, the possible combinations are the following:
.Up to 3 at the beggining. Up to 4 at the end
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20 sounds of vowel
24 sounds of consonants
Phonology
Studies how sounds are organized
focusing on the
discourse
One phoneme can change the whole meaning of the word
This is called
minimal pairs
Which isn't always grammaticaly correct
But allow people to communicate
Rapid speech
Weak form
When speaking, we follow certain patterns of pronunciation
these words have
stress syllables
The most important emphasis is
Primary stress
(Main Stress)
Represented by "
'
"
Context
In order to make a word more important than the rest, it can be
emphasized
Strong form
Citation
Exclamation
Compounds words change the stress to the first syllable
Stress shift
Some words can change the last letter depending of the next word
Intonation
Voice falls
Rises
Type of conversation
Communicative competence
correct sentences
Make
Recognize
Coherence
Avoid
Morphological errors
Word ending
Syntactic errors
Word order
Semantics errors
Word meaning
Paralinguistic features
Context
Can change the message way
Particular acent
Slurred words
Laugh or smiles
Hesitated
Interrelated concepts
Secondary stress
is less emphatic, but a little more than the rest
Represented by "
,
"
Conected speech
Dell Hymes
deals with
but