标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 1 Track 34（在线收听）

Complex Intonation 

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 syllable-count in tonation patterns were cove 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 syllables 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 consonant causes the previous vowel to double.