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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Tonic transcription
I need to do my pronunciation homework and I have found it really difficult. I need to recognize tonic syllable pre-head, head, tail and tone (fall,rise etc). I did it twice and I my answers were wrong. Perhaps you could help me a little. Here is the recording of sentence.
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She is not staying for lunch is she.
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She is not staying for lunch is she.
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Anonymoustonic syllable pre-head, head, tail and tone (fall,rise etc).Maybe people don't know what these terms mean. That's why no one has answered.
You have a rise on "lunch", but other than that, I don't know what you need here. I can understand why you think it's difficult.
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This terminology (conceptual structure) belongs to the British school of Intonation.
Pre-head + head + tonic syllable + tail = tone unit
pre-head = everything upto the first stressed syll
head = from the first stressed syl upto the tonic syllable
tonic syllable = where ya see the tone
tail = everything after that
She is not + Staying for the +
Pre-head + head + tonic syllable + tail = tone unit
pre-head = everything upto the first stressed syll
head = from the first stressed syl upto the tonic syllable
tonic syllable = where ya see the tone
tail = everything after that
She is not + Staying for the +
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