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(18-19) Run-On Poems and Prosodic Features

This document discusses prosodic features of speech, which are aspects of speech beyond individual sounds or phonemes that relate to auditory qualities. It identifies five main prosodic features: 1) pauses, 2) pitch, 3) stress, 4) volume, and 5) tempo. For each feature, it provides an example of how that feature affects meaning in speech and how it can be represented in writing. The overall summary is that prosodic features are an important but subtle part of spoken communication that are difficult to fully capture in written text.

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(18-19) Run-On Poems and Prosodic Features

This document discusses prosodic features of speech, which are aspects of speech beyond individual sounds or phonemes that relate to auditory qualities. It identifies five main prosodic features: 1) pauses, 2) pitch, 3) stress, 4) volume, and 5) tempo. For each feature, it provides an example of how that feature affects meaning in speech and how it can be represented in writing. The overall summary is that prosodic features are an important but subtle part of spoken communication that are difficult to fully capture in written text.

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RUN-ON POEM Full of potential for a better tomorrow 1. Pause.

Pause as hesitation is a non-fluency


Teach me discipline teach me character teach feature. However, intentional pauses are used to
Below is an African poem. It is written demarcate units of grammatical construction, such
me hard work
without punctuations solely for this activity. as sentences or clauses. These can be indicated in
Teach me to think like the star within me
writing by full stops, colons, semi-colons and
Your teacher will read it to you without I am an African child
commas.
interruption; no pausing nor variation in tone. She
may also call one learner to re-read it for I can be extra-ordinary 2. Pitch. Different pitch levels, or intonation, can
everybody. Call me William Kamkwamba the Inventor affect meaning. The most obvious example is the
“ I am an African Child” Give me a library with books way in which speakers raise the pitch at the end of
by Eku McGred Give me a scrap yard and discarded electronics a question, and this is indicated by a question mark
Give me a broken bicycle in writing. However, patterns of rise and fall can
I am an African child Plus the freedom to be me indicate such feelings as astonishment, boredom or
Born of a skin the color of the chocolate And I will build you a windmill puzzlement, and these can be shown in writing only
Bright brilliant and articulate in a special transcription.
I am an African child
Strong and bold Im gifted
3. Stress. Stress, or emphasis, is easy to use and
Talented enough to be the best We are the new generation
recognize in spoken language, but harder to
I am an African child Not afraid to be us describe. A stressed word or syllable is usually
Uniquely gifted black and talented preceded by a very slight pause, and is spoken at
Often the target of pity Shining like the stars we are slightly louder volume (louder, longer, & higher in
My future is not confined to charity We are the children of Africa pitch).
Give me the gift of a lifetime Making the best of us
Give me a dream a door of opportunity Yes I Am an African Child 4. Volume. Apart from the slight increase in
I will thrive loudness to indicate stress, volume is generally
I am an African child used to show emotions such as fear or anger. In
PROSODIC FEATURES OF SPEECH. writing, it can be shown by the use of an
exclamation mark, or typographically with capitals
Do not hide my fault
Prosodic features (sometimes known or italics (or both).
Show me my wrong
as suprasegmental phonology) are those aspects of
I am like any other 5. Tempo. Tempo, or speed, is to some extent a
speech which go beyond phonemes and deal with
Teach me to dream matter of idiolect. Whilst its use is not wholly
the auditory qualities of sound. In spoken
And I will become communication, we use and interpret these features systematic, it can indicate the difference between,
I am an African child without really thinking about them. There are for example, impatience and reflectiveness. It can
various conventional ways of representing them in be shown in writing only through unspoken words,
writing, although the nuances are often hard to e.g. “Certainly not”, he snapped.
I am the son daughter of the soil convey on paper.
Rich in texture and content

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