(2) Suprasegmentals The features such as pitch, stress, and length, which are used simultaneously with units larger than segments, are called “suprasegmentals.”

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(2) Suprasegmentals The features such as pitch, stress, and length, which are used simultaneously with units larger than segments, are called “suprasegmentals.” (a) Pitch: The pitch of the voice refers to the frequency of the vocal cord vibration. It is influenced by the tension of the vocal cords and the amount of air that passes through them. The patterns of rises and falls(pitch variation) across a stretch of speech such as a sentence are called its intonation. -> In tone languages, the pitch variation can signal differences in word meaning; Sino-Tibetan languages(Mandarin, Cantonese), Niger-Congo languages(Zulu, Yoruba, Igbo), and many Amerindian ] languages(Apache, Navajo, Kiowa) are called tone languages. e.g.) The tone of [ma] of Mandarin Chinese: [ma] high level tone [mā] ‘mother’ high rising tone [má] ‘hemp’ low falling rising tone [mă] ‘horse’ high falling tone [mà] ‘scold’

(b) Stress: Stress can be defined as syllable prominence (b) Stress: Stress can be defined as syllable prominence. The prominence of a stressed syllable over an unstressed one may be due to a number of factors: (a) loudness (stressed syllables are louder than unstressed syllables) (b) duration (stressed syllables are longer than unstressed syllables) (c) pitch (stressed syllables are produced with higher than unstressed syllables). -> Variation in syllable duration and loudness produces differences in rhythm. stress-timed rhythm: Stressed syllables occur at roughly equal intervals in time(English, Danish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, Arabic e.g.) Whát did you hópe to discóver by this tést? ( ˊ )( ˊ )( ˊ )(ˊ ) : equal length between stressed and unstressed syllables in four time

syllable-timed rhythm: The rhythmic beat occurs by the recurrences of syllables, not stress; Spanish, Greek, French, Hindi, Italian, Welsh, Cantonese, Korean, Turkish,… (c) length: Length differences in vowels or consonants may be used to make lexical distinctions in languages; Swedish, Estonian, Finnish, Arabic, Japanese, and Danish can be cited for vowel length contrasts. e.g.) Danish: [vilə] “wild”, [vi:lə] “rest” In Italian and Trukish, different consonant length is responsible for lexical distinctions. e.g.) Italisan: [nɔnno] “grandfather”, [nɔno] “ninth” => However, English does not have such meaning differences entirely based on vowel length. Examples such as beat-bit and pool-pull are separated not simply on the basis of length, but also on vowel height and tense/lax distinctions.

# Exercises -- page 24-30 Answer the given questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 13 for sure.