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15.5 Tones on other words - Coggle Diagram
15.5 Tones on other words
In the case of polysyllabic words, it is always the most strongly stressed syllable
that receives the tone; the tone mark is equivalent to a stress mark
EXAMPLE
Fall
(usually suggests a “final” or “definite” feeling)
\stop \ eighty a \ gain
Rise
(often suggesting a question)
/ sure /really to /night
When a speaker is giving a list of items, they often use a rise on each item until the last,
which has a fall
EXAMPLES
You can have it in / red, / blue, / green or \ black
Fall-rise
(often suggesting uncertainty or hesitation)
v
some
v
nearly per
v
haps
Fall-rise
is sometimes used instead of rise in giving lists.
Rise-fall
(often sounds surprised or impressed)
/ʌ/
oh
/ʌ/
lovely i
/ʌ/
mmense
Notes on problems and further reading
United States
the theory was based
on ‘pitch phonemes’
Four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from
one of these levels to another.
In
Britain
the ‘tone-unit’ or ‘tonetic’ approach was developed by (among
others)
These two different theoretical
approaches became gradually more elaborate and difficult to use.
Intonation include among tones
“high fall”
“low fall”
( the former starting from a high pitch , the latter from
mid )
then some thing symbolised as
v could be any of the following:
Several writers have included in their set of tones
fall-rise-fall
and
rise-fall-rise
