An Introduction to Intonation

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Slide 9 has an error. According to Brazil the P tone is the RISING-FALLING tone (or Jakknife according to O'Connor) and the R tone is the RISING tone (O'Connor's High Rise)

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Intonation – an Introduction: 

Intonation – an Introduction tone group head tail nucleus tonic syllable pitch stress key fall rise fall-rise rise-fall tone group head tail nucleus tonic syllable pitch stress key fall rise fall-rise rise-fall tone group head tail nucleus tonic syllable pitch stress key fall rise fall-rise rise-fall

What is intonation?: 

What is intonation? - I’ve lost an umbrella. - A lady’s umbrella? - Yes. A lady’s umbrella with stars on it. Green stars. - I’ve lost an umbrella. - A lady’s umbrella? Yes. A lady’s umbrella with stars on it. Green stars. Example from French Allen quoted in Celce-Murcia et al Teaching Pronunciation CUP

What is intonation?: 

What is intonation? I’ve lost an um BRE lla. A LAdy’s umbrella? Yes. A lady’s umbrella with STARS on it. GREEN stars.

What is intonation?: 

What is intonation? I’ve lost an um BRE lla. A LAdy’s umbrella? Yes. A lady’s umbrella with STARS on it. GREEN stars.

Some terminology: 

Some terminology (Prehead) (Head) Nucleus (Tail) = Tone Group / YES / /A lady’s umbrella with STARS on it / Nucleus Pre Head Nucleus Tail Head or Tonic Syllable

Types of Tone: 

Types of Tone Fall It’s John Rise Is it John? Fall-rise Oh – John. Rise-fall What?? John?? Level ° Who else? John

Approaches to analysing intonation: 

Approaches to analysing intonation Attempts to match intonation and structure – eg Yes/No questions have rising intonation Attempts to match intonation and attitude/emotion – eg rise-fall = surprise Brazil + Coulthard – Discourse function of intonation

Brazil and Coulthard: 

Brazil and Coulthard Intonation signals how information in the discourse should be interpreted – eg as shared or new information, as equating or contrasting with what has gone before Two aspects – tone - pitch movement on the nucleus or “tonic” syllable key – pitch variation between syllables

Tone: 

Tone Brazil and Coulthard argue for 5 tones – fall – proclaiming tone (p) : new information fall-rise – referring tone (r) : shared information rise - p+ : new to the speaker too rise-fall – r+ : shared, but in need of reactivation level

Proclaiming and referring tones: 

Proclaiming and referring tones When are you going to read Adam Bede? I shall read Adam Bede after I’ve finished Middlemarch What are you going to read after you’ve finished Middlemarch? I shall read Adam Bede after I’ve finished Middlemarch

P and R+ tones: 

P and R+ tones Where’s John? He’s in Rome. He’s in Rome. (I’ve already told you three times)

P and P+ tones: 

P and P+ tones Take an umbrella - it’s raining. Look, it’s raining! (It’s the first time for six months)

Tone: 

Tone Brazil and Coulthard argue for 5 tones – fall – proclaiming tone (p) : new information fall-rise – referring tone (r) : shared information rise - p+ : new to the speaker too rise-fall – r+ : shared, but in need of reactivation level

Key: 

Key High, mid or low Not absolute – dependent on the speaker’s voice, but also relative to preceding elements of the sentence

High key: 

High key Indicates contrast blue red John’s car is not Peter’s wife This is Elizabeth, wife This is Elizabeth, Peter’s

High Key: 

High Key ... the company admitted having a number of problems. A fire destroyed buildings in ... A fire destroyed buildings in ... ... the company admitted having a number of problems

Low key: 

Low key Indicates equivalence The lecture was cancelled. The speaker was ill. I met Henry’s brother. He’s a banker. She didn’t like the job and left.

Low key: 

Low key / We went there about / six or seven years ago/ oh I’m not sure exactly how long ago but /

Approaches to teaching intonation: 

Approaches to teaching intonation Intonation is frequently neglected all together If taught, it’s generally unsystematic Usually a mish-mash of the grammatical and attitudinal approaches Generally just “tacked on” to grammar presentation – eg repetition work

Presenting intonation: 

Presenting intonation Ss need to understand the function of intonation before they can produce it accurately – teaching must start from awareness activities - ie listen and interpret

Some activity types: 

Some activity types Dialogue interpretation Dialogue practice – predict the intonation, listen and check, repeat Dialogue creation, building in the feature being practised