Tonality: The division of the spoken material into meaningful chunks.
Tonicity: Speakers use intonation to highlight some words as important for the meaning they wish to convey. These are the words on which the speaker focuses the hearer’s attention. To highlight an important word we accent it. That is to say, we add pitch prominence to the rhythmic prominence that a stressed syllable bears. The accents are also the ‘hooks’ on which the intonation pattern is hung.
The nucleus is the most important accent in the I(ntonation) P(hrase). It indicates the end of the focused part of the material.
Tone: Having decided the tonicity, we decide on which pitch movement we are going to associate the IP with.
(from WELLS, J. (2006) English Intonation. An Introduction. CUP Cambridge)
Buenas tardes, quería consultar dónde puedo conseguir material con audios para practicar tonetic dictation
ReplyDeletego to the INTERESTING LINKS section and click on UCL Phonetics & Linguistics Web Tutorials, The Internet Archive Audio Collection or Dialect Blog. There you will find plenty of material. The British Council also publishes videos with Phonetics and Phonology practice.
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