Prosodic Features
Prosodic Features
Prosodic Features
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Suprasegmental features (also known as prosodic feature) are phonetic features that span
more than a single speech segment. The typical suprasegmental features are:
- Voice pitch
- Loudness or vocal effort
- Length or relative duration of a syllable
The main components of suprasegmental features consist of; stress, pitch, intonation, length, and
tone.
1. Stress
Word stress is a sound stress that occurs in the syllable. Pronouncing word with the
correct stress can make a big difference. There are three things of stress:
Example:
The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is. We produce high pitched sounds when our
vocal folds have a high frequency vibration, and when our vocal folds vibrate more slowly, the
resulting sound is lower in pitch.
Example:
The first syllable has higher pitch than the second in the noun record.
The second syllable has higher pitch than the first in the verb record.
3. Intonation
Intonation or pitch contour is the melodic pattern of an utterance. Intonation conveys the
differences of expressive meaning such as surprise, anger, wariness, etc.
Example:
“Your name is John.” Beginning with a medium pitch and ending with a lower one (falling
intonation), is a simple assertion.
“Your name is John?” With a rising intonation (high final pitch), indicates a question.
4. Length
Length is a feature of sounds that have distinctively extended duration compared with
other sounds. Length is related with vowel because every words that use vowel also need length
to express the meaning of words.
Example:
/jes/ when it pronounced it means lot of interest emotion and so on, but /je:s/ it indicates extreme
emotional involvement.
5. Tone
- Register tone, is a tone its pitch level doesn’t change across the syllable.
- Contour tone, is a tone with pitch changing across the syllable, whether from high to low
or vice versa.