tailieunhanh - Lecture Phonetics & Phonology: Lecture 7

Lecture 7 - Tones of Lecture Phonetics & Phonology has content: Tones and tone languages, Tones and functions of tones in English, Tone units. | Lecture 7 Tones • Tones and tone languages • Tones and functions of tones in English • Tone units 1 Tones and tone languages • When we speak, we constantly vary the pitch of our voice. Tone is the overall behaviour of pitch in a syllable. • Although in English, a word such as ‘yes’ and ‘no’ can be spoken with different tones, no English speakers would say that the meaning of the word is different with different tones. • English is one of those languages that do not use tone to distinguish the meanings of words, though tones or pitch differences are used for other purposes. Such languages are called intonation languages. 2 Tone languages • A tone language is one in which the tone can determine the meaning of a word and a change from one tone to another can completely change the meaning of a word. In other words, substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word can cause a change in lexical meaning of that word. • . Vietnamese, Chinese 3 Tones Tones Simple tones Complex tones Level tones (_) Moving tones Fall-rise tone (v) Rise-fall Tone (^) Falling tone (\) Rising tone (/) 4 Description of tones • The level tone is one in which the pitch remains at a constant level • The falling tone is one which descends from a higher to a lower pitch • The rising tone is a movement from a lower pitch to a higher one • The fall-rise tone is one in which the pitch falls and then rises • The rise-fall tone is one in which the pitch rises and then falls 5

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