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PROMINENCE AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN PRONUNCIATION TEACHING MATERIALS,…
PROMINENCE AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE
IN PRONUNCIATION TEACHING MATERIALS
Form
greater strength of a word or a syllable compared to other words
or syllables
within a phonological phrase
segmental clarity
Salient pitch movements expressing pitch accents
Introduction📝
Prominence is not
only commonly taught in pronunciation materials, it is also the subject of a wide range of
current research in regard to both its form and its functions
One of the most commonly taught suprasegmental features of English pronunciation is
prominence⏺️
Also known as sentence stress, nuclear stress and tonic
Prominence is the use of pitch, duration, and intensity to mark particular words/syllables
in utterance as salient.
Prominence has multiple uses, the most important
of which are to mark a default placement on the final content word of a phrase, to mark
contrasting information, and to signal new information and given information⏺️
The
purpose of this mind map is to illustrate how pronunciation teaching materials reflect the
findings of linguistic research on prominence and to suggest possible changes to teaching
materials to connect them more closely to current findings☄️
CONCLUSION📝
signal the information structure of discourse is a critical aspect
of communicative ability
cognitively challenging aspect of speech
for L2 learners
:who may not understand either the pronunciation or the functions of
prominence.
Functions
introduce information that is new or
important to the goal of the discourse
Information structure or the phrase
Perception
lexical neighborhoods
High- words
second mention reduction
INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN TEACHING MATERIALS
Presentation of pitch excursions to represent prominence
Prominent syllables marked in spoken phrases
common acoustic cues to prominence are
duration
intensity