ORAL COMMUNICATION

TEACHER: DIEGO CHAVEZ

UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING
TEACHER: DIEGO CHAVEZ
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:
 Intonation is related to the
meaningful intention of the person
speaking. Basically, the modulation
of the voice is ascending or
descending.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:
 In affirmative and imperative
sentences and in formal questions,
the modulation tends to be
descending.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:

 In friendlier questions, voice modulation

is generally upward.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:

This lessons is dedicated to the study of

intonation, and in them you will find
detailed information on the previous three
points and on new ones.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• The accent in two-syllable words

The following observations were made
about intonation:

First of all, here are some comments about

the relationship between intonation and the
speaker's meaningful intention.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• Intonation and meaning

In some languages. when the intonation of

an isolated word is varied it can completely
change its meaning.
Mandarin Chinese is an example of this type
of language. In Mandarin Chinese, for
example, / ma: /, pronounced with ascending
intonation, means "horse", while the same
sound, pronounced with uniform tone, means
"mother".
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• Intonation and meaning

English is not part of these languages ​ and.

therefore, intonation has no significant value
in isolated words, but it does in complete
sentences.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• Intonation and meaning

The intonation in English affects the meaning

in the sense that it communicates the attitude
of the person speaking when formulating a
sentence, giving it the appearance of a
question, an exclamation or a precise
statement, and also transmitting a friendly,
angry, groping character. , etc.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• Intonation and meaning

Like all languages. English has its own

patterns of intonation, which you should get
used to since. although some coincide with
those of Spanish, others are different.
 UNIT 1 - INTONATION AND MEANING

• BASIC POINTS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION

• Intonation and meaning

In this unit, the study of intonation in English

focuses on the basic difference between
ascending intonation and descending
intonation. To make the examples clear, the
sentences consist in each case only of one
word.
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