Sentence Level Transcription Phonetics SPAU 3343 Dr. Katz Rev Fall, 2013

Transcribing Suprasegmentals Information from Phonetics for Dummies. William F. Katz. “Marking Melody in Your Transcription.” 2013.

Example #1

Pattern #1 - Tone Groups Step 1: Listen for the breath groups, and separate them using a “vertical bar” (here shown in green):

Pattern #1 - Stress Step 2: Mark the tonic stress above the transcription and mark lexical stress below.

Pattern #1 - Intonation Step 3: Listen for the intonation pattern. Draw the shape above the transcription.

Pattern #2

Listen for the breath groups, and separate them using a vertical bar: Pattern #2 - Tone Groups Step 1: Listen for the breath groups, and separate them using a vertical bar:

Pattern #2 - Stress Step 2: Listen for stress. Mark the tonic stress above the transcription and mark lexical stress below.

Pattern #2 - Intonation Step 3: Listen for the intonation pattern. Draw the shape above the transcription.

Pattern #3

Pattern #3 - Tone Groups Step 1: Listen for the breath groups, and separate them using a vertical bar:

Pattern #3 - Stress Step 2: Listen for stress. Mark the tonic stress above the transcription and mark lexical stress below.

Pattern #3 - Intonation Step 3: Listen for the intonation pattern. Draw the shape above the transcription.

To Recap…

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