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OBJECTIVES:
Knowledge Define and identify the prosodic feature of
speech; volume, projection, pitch, stress,
intonation, juncture and rate of speech
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Analysis
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• Exercise 1
• Put your students in pairs. Make student A produce the utterances below if adhering to the "stage directions" given in parentheses. Ask them to
indicate the pitch range patterns that might occur in the situations described for the following utterances.
• Can you pass me that book? (said politely to a friend)
• Where were you last night? (angry father to daughter)
• Must it be printed? (polite question)
• Who is the one in the corner? (excitedly, to a friend)
• Exercise 2:
• Play a dialogue from the tape two or three times and want all your students to practice it correctly in pairs.
• A. Help! We’re lost!
• B. Where are you?
• A. I don’t know. There’s a supermarket and a river.
• B. Oh, I think I know where you are… Can you see a bridge?
• A. Yes.
• B. Ok, well go across the bridge and turn right.
• A. Turn right?
• B. Uh huh. Now, can you see some trees on the left?
• A. Yes.
• B. Turn left after trees.
• A. What, in front of the bar?
• B. Yes, in front of the bar. You’ll see my house on the left.
• A. It’s opposite the farm.
• B. That’s it. Well done, you are here
• Summary
• The pitch of voice is primarily determined by the tension
and vibration of vocal cords, secondarily by the amount of
air force coming from lungs (Çelik, 2003:111). Every
individual voice has a pitch range which can be achieved by
adjustments of the vocal cords.
• Pitch is a very important part of speaking and listening.
There are three parts of the pitch range: low, mid and high
pitch. The pitch movement changes depending on the
sentence is completed or not, or if it is a yes/no question,
wh-question, or answer statement.