Phonetik (Subject) / Prosody (Lesson)

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Betonung im Englischen

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  • function words grammatical information are usually unstressed
  • function words have one stressed syllable
  • compound words stressed syllable in first noun póst-óffice Énglish tèacher      
  • two word verbs stress on the adverb turn ón
  • verb + prepostion always stress on the preposition
  • rising intonation in question - if not sure of the answe os correct
  • falling intonation in questions - if agreement is wanted
  • verb+ function word leftward stress   make- up
  • adjective +noun rightward phrasal stress dirty 'hands
  • adjective+noun compound compound stress. leftward 'red wing    - Rotdrossel
  • adjective and noun sequences - rightward stress   short 'story   spare 'change
  • adjective +pp rightward phrasalstress   bad - 'tempered
  • adjectives used as predicate adjectives phrasal rightward stress   The coin is silver-'plated   Most of the teachers are under-'paid and over-'worked
  • adjectives as noun modifiers left ward compound stess   Yesterday, there were four'teen workers
  • simple harmonic motion characteristics -perceptual - go on forever - regular in time
  • damping speech sound are not that regular sounds disappear and go not on forever
  • 120 Hz  fundamental frequency a man speaks with 120 closing and opening of the vocal folds per second
  • voiced sounds -buzz like qualtiy -peridic regular sound waves
  • turbulent sources - hissing qualtiy -aperiodic sound waves are used to create speech sounds  
  • transcient source - very short pop ot burst occur when an oral stop is released just occur at the ends of vocal stops