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PROMINENCE AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN PRONUNCIATION TEACHING MATERIALS …
PROMINENCE AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE
IN PRONUNCIATION TEACHING MATERIALS
Prominence
Form
Function
Perception
Form
segmental clarity,
intensity
duration
he most common acoustic cues to prominence are fundamental frequency
(f0), duration, intensity, segmental clarity, and any combination of these features.
Function
The relationship between
prominence and information structure is typically strong in rightmost prominent words
(words that bear nuclear accents) in the phrase (Calhoun, 2006), whereas prominence in
pre-nuclear positions seems to depend on other factors, such as those that affect rh
words that lack prominence are typically considered given in the prior
discourse, or anaphorically recoverab
Perception
here are conflicting answers about which phonetics cues reliably mark prominence.
Early perceptual studies of single words by Fry (1955, 1958) suggest that prominent
syllables are marked
Acoustic features related to prominence perception interact with other factors related to
pragmatics and discourse
Duration
intensity
Pronunciation involves both cognitive and procedural knowledge
, the same meaning can also be expressed by using
auxiliaries, omitting the old information, reordering the sentence, or using
pronouns.
A: Who borrowed my eraser?
B: I borrowed it. (== I did.)
I is new information, not known by A; borrowed it is old informa