INTONATION

GROUP:
 INTONATION
INTONATION MAYBE DEFINED SUCH AS A
UNITY OF THE SPEECH MELODY, SENTENCE
STRESS, VOICE QUALITY AND SPEECH
TEMPO WHICH ENABLE TO THE SPEAKER
COMMUNICATE. IT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD
AND RECOGNIZED AS THE PITCH OF VOICE
(HIGH OR LOW)
 FUNCTIONS

The 4 common funcitions are:

1, The attitudinal
2, The accentual
3, The grammatical
4, The discourse
 The attitudial
The intonation enables us to
express emotions and attitudes
as we speak and this adds a
special kind of meaning to
spoken language. This means
the same sentences can be
different ways: angry, happy,
grateful and so on
 The accentual
This type of function help to
produce the effect on
prominence of syllables that
need to be perceived as
stressed
 The grammatical
In this function, the listener is
better to recognise the grammar
and syntatic structure of what is
being said by using the
information contained in the
intonation
 The discourse
In listening to the speaker, it is
very important for the listener, to
recognize the “new” or “given
information” while the speaker is
conveying, indicating in his/her
conversation
DIFFERENT INTONATION
SYMBOLS

 Falling tone yes

 Rising tone
 Fall-rise tone yes
 Rise-fall tone
 Level tone yes

yes

yes
 The tone unit
+The tone unit is the minimal unit which can
carry intonation
+It can be one syllable but usually extends
over the few syllable
Ex:
one syllable utterance : ,you
three syllable utterance: ,it is, you
four syllable utterance: Jonh, it is, you