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PHONETIC AND
PHONOLOGY
Student: Elizabeth Ramos Castillo

Teacher: Vivian Gabriela Mazariegos Lima

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Stress
• Perception that certain word or syllable is prominent.

• Stressed syllables seem to be louder than the syllables they

surround.

• Weakness

• Pitch
Stress
in words
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Pollysyllabic words 1st syllable

Two syllable words 2nd syllable

Composed words 3rd syllable

 Stress rules

Syntactic Morphological Phonological

• Part of the speech • Suffixes
• Nature of the final two
• Nouns, verbs and • Compound words
syllables: penult and ult.
adjectives • Complex words
 Left-biased language
• English words try very hard to stress themselves towards
the beginning of the word.
• Affixes are rarely stressed in English.

Cigaret e t te
te on
Mais
 Diph
Schwa
th o n gs

le s
la b
Syl

Features
Stress is attracted to certain features.
 Features

● Long syllables and diphthongs

● Schwa and monosyllables

Increíble-
● Long vowels or diphthongs

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● Words that come through ‘Latin’
● Consonant clusters
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Intonation
Tone and Pitch
 Prosodic features

Pitch Loudness Lenght

 Variables of Pitch
● Rise and fall
● Rise and then fall
● Fall and then rise

Speaker’s intention

Voice Speed
Quality vs
Timbre Volume

Moving tone
 Rising and falling tones

Fall Fall-rise
01 02

Rise Rise-fall
03 04
It’s
m e, J o
hn.
Tone
Unit
Nuclar syllable
or
Tonic
 Crystal’s six functions of intonation
Emotional
(1987) Textual

Grammatical Psychological
Intonation

Information
Indexical
structure
 Reading
Dr. Jesús Arzamendi, Mr. Phillip Bal, Ms. Elizabeth Gassó, Ms. Nicky Hockly. Fonética
y Fonología. Chapter 7 & Chapter 8.

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