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Complex Intonation1
Word Count Intonation Patterns CD 1 Track 34
This is the beginning of an extr emely important part of spoken American English—the rhythms and intonation patterns of the l ong streams of nouns and adjectives that are so commonly used. These exercises will tie in the intonation patterns of adjectives (nice, old, best, etc.), nouns (dog, house, surgeon, etc.), and adverbs (very, really, amazingly, etc.) One way of approaching sentence intonation is not to build each sentence from scratch. Instead, use patterns, with each pattern similar to a mathematical formula. Instead of plugging in numbers, however, plug in words.
In Exercise 1-2, we looked at simple noun•verb•noun patterns, and in Exercise 1-22 and 1-23, the syllable2-count in tonation patterns were cove3 red and tested. In Exer cises 1-24 to 1-37, we'll examine intonation patterns in two word phrases.
It's important to note that there's a major difference between syllable stress and compound nouns tress patterns. In the syllable count exercises, each syllable was represented by a single musical note. In the noun phrases, each individual word will be represented by a single musical note—no matter how many total syllables4 there may be.
At times, what appears to be a single syllable word will have a "longer" sound to it— seed takes longer to say than seat for example. This was introduced on page 3, where you learned that a final voiced consonant5 causes the previous vowel6 to double.
1 intonation | |
n.语调,声调;发声 | |
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2 syllable | |
n.音节;vt.分音节 | |
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3 cove | |
n.小海湾,小峡谷 | |
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4 syllables | |
n.音节( syllable的名词复数 ) | |
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5 consonant | |
n.辅音;adj.[音]符合的 | |
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6 vowel | |
n.元音;元音字母 | |
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