1. PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS
GUNADARMA UNIVERSITY

2. Segmentals and Suprasegmentals
Sound units arranged in a sequential
order.
Example: Heavens /hɛvənz/ = 6
segmentals features/segments

3. Suprasegmentals/prosodic features:
Features that always accompany the
production of segmentals, such as:
1. Stress
2. Pitch
3. Length
4. Intonation

4. Stress:
The degree of force or loudness with
which a syllable is pronounced.
1. Strong stress/primary stress (…’…)
2. Medium stress/secondary stress (..,…)
3. Weak stress (…no sign..)

5. Monosyllabic word: man, glass
Two syllabic word: baby, object, able (stress in first syllable)
Ago, desert, object, again (stress in
second syllable)
Three syllabic word:
‘Article, ‘family (first)
No’vember, to’morrow (second)
guaran’tee, after’noon (third)

6. Pitch
The degree of lowness and higness of tone.

7. Pitch Example: Hello = /2/, /3/ Good Morning = /2/, /3/, /1/
I’m going home = /2/, /4/

8. Intonation
The going up and down of a pitch over different syllables in an utterance.
The melody of speech.
Intonation contours:
Falling Intonation
Rising Intonation
Sustained Intonation

9. Falling Intonation 1. Orders -Come here. - Be a good boy. 2. Calls
- Hey, John
- Hello, there
3. Exclamations
- How beautiful!
- How pretty that girl is!

10. Falling Intonation
4. Final Statement/decided statement - The sun sets in the west - Seeing is believing 5. Question-word question / WH-question - What’s your name? - Who will come with me?

11. Rising Intonation
Yes-No question - Shall I open the door? - May we come in? - Was it you?

12. Sustained Intonation (Non-finality of an utterance)
Yesterday, I bought chocolate, sugar,
vegetables, and milk.

13. Length

14. 1. Diphthong is longer than pure vowel
Example:
code – cod, late – let
2. Long vowel is longer than short vowel
caught – cot, cord – cod
3. Vowel in open syllable is longer than in
a closed syllable

15. Example: he – heal, who – whose 4
Example: he – heal, who – whose 4. Vowel in s stressed syllable is longer than in unstressed syllable. Example: through – throughout 5. Vowel followed by voiced consonant is longer than followed by voiceless consonant. Example: side – site, save - safe

16. UAS MATERIALS 1. CONSONANTS 2. VOWELS 3. DIPHTHONGS 4. SYLLABELS
5. SEGMENTALS AND SUPRASEGMENTALS

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