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Segmental vs. Suprasegmental Features Length Pitch Stress Summary Phonetics Suprasegmental Features Darrell Larsen Linguistics 101 Darrell Larsen Phonetics Segmental vs. Suprasegmental Features Length Pitch Stress Summary Outline 1

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Suprasegmental Features Darrell Larsen Linguistics 101

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Outline

1 Segmental vs. Suprasegmental Features 2 Length 3 Pitch

Intonation Tone

4 Stress 5 Summary

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Segmental vs. Suprasegmental Features

Segmental features are (generally) easy to determine in isolation. Suprasegmental features are relative and determined across segments. Single suprasegmental features may occur over a single segment or a sequence of segments.

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Length

The length of individual phones may differ. The length of a phone may depend on pragmatic reasons, phonetic reasons, or phonemic reasons (i.e. to distinguish words).

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Non-distinctive Length

In English, vowels preceding voiced consonants are longer than vowels preceding voiceless consonants bead > beat bag > back When identical phones end up adjacent to each other, they may be pronounced as a single, long sound two plus seven > two plus eight ghos(t)s → [goUss]

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Distinctive Length

In some languages, changing the length of a phone can change a word’s meaning. Korean (older generation) [mal] ‘horse’ [ma:l] ‘speech’ [nun] ‘eye’ [nu:n] ‘snow’ Czech [bit] ‘apartment’ [bi:t] ‘to be’ [dal] ‘gave’ [da:l] ‘further’ Question In English, some vowels are pronounced longer than others. Why is this not distinctive?

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Pitch and Speech

All speakers have different average pitch.* A speaker’s pitch may be culturally (and situationally) influenced.* Pitch as part of language includes both intonation and tone.

*These facts are not related to ‘language’ proper, though sociolinguists and anthropologists may study these Darrell Larsen Phonetics

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Intonation

pitch as it operates over phrases and sentences does not distinguish individual words plays a role in determining utterance meaning

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Edge Tones

  • ccur at the end of phrases (including sentences).

shape the meaning in various ways aid in processing sentence structure (1)

  • a. You got an A on the test.
  • b. You got an A on the test?
  • c. You got an A on the test, a C on the homework, and a

B on the quiz. (2)

  • a. Yes. (answer)
  • b. Yes? (guessing)
  • c. Yes. (‘What do you want?’)
  • d. Yes. (‘I see...’ said evilly)

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Pitch Accent

refers to the use of pitch used to give prominence to a word used in English to focus words (3)

  • a. Who kissed Peter?
  • b. MARY kissed Peter.

(4)

  • a. Who did Mary kiss?
  • b. Mary kissed PETER.

(5)

  • a. What did Mary do to Peter?
  • b. Mary KISSED Peter.

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Tone

pitch operating over syllables to distinguish words found in ‘tone languages’ tones can be level or contour tone languages may use both types of tones, or just one

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Cantonese Tones

Cantonese (spoken in and around Hong Kong) has six tones Cantonese has both level and contour tones Applying tones to [si] Pronunciation Meaning Tone [ Ć£si ] ‘poem’ 53 [ Ă£si ] ‘to try’ 33 [ Ă£si ] ‘matter’ 22 [ Ă£si ] ‘time’ 11 [ Ě£si ] ‘to cause’ 45 [ Ę£si ] ‘city’ 13

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Stress

refers to prominence due of a particular syllable due to increased amplitude, pitch, and length Stress placement may be predictable or unpredictable. Predictable stress need not be memorized with words. Languages frequently have some predictable and some non-predictable stress.

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Predictable Stress Placement

In Czech, stress always falls on the first syllable. In Polish, stress falls on the penultimate syllable.

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Non-predictable Stress Placement

In Dutch, stress placement is sometimes distinctive:

v´

  • ´
  • rkomen ’to occur’, voork´
  • men ’to prevent’

In English, stress is sometime non-predictable, sometimes predictable.

stress placement on words must be memorized: convoy, convey, magazine distinguishes some nouns from verbs: insult vs insult affixes affect stress in regular ways: communicate → communication, implicate → implication

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Summary

All languages make use of segmental and suprasegmental features. All languages use at least segmental features distinctively. Some languages use suprasegmental features distinctively.

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