PPT-4. RHYTHM, PROSODY, TONE, LANGUAGE

MUSIC 318 MINICOURSE ON SPEECH AND SINGING Science of Sound Chapter 16 Springer Handbook of Acoustics Chapter 16 RHYTHM A STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS ITS RHYTHM ENGLISH RUSSIAN ARABIC AND THAI ARE STRESSTIMED LANGUAGES STRESSED SYLLABLES RECUR AT APPROXIMATELY EQUAL INTERVALS SYLLABLES MOST OFTEN END WITH A CONSONANT. Heather Allison. Jessica . Shortridge. Are you tired of your child reading poorly?. Then try these techniques... Repeated Reading. Text segmenting. Auditory Modeling. Better?. . Reading fluency is often a neglected goal of elementary classrooms, but if these techniques were put into practice readers would reap the benefits!. a. nd how to discuss them meaningfully . PowerPoint modified from originals at . http://parkrose.orvsd.org/. , Hill’s 2007 . AP Lit Diction Guide, and . http://exchange.guhsd.net/details.php?object_id=370. . 2010 Summer School on Documentary Linguistics in West Africa (Intermediate). July 19-July 31 2010. . What is tone and why work on it. ? (1) . “A language with tone is one in which an indication of pitch enters into the lexical realization of at least some morphemes” (Hyman 2001: 1368). • Definition of prosody – Intonation: pitch and boundaries – Timing within intonation phrases–Stress • Intonational phrasing in production: Two factors: • Intonat Yesterday, I had a student ask me what the word . prodigious . meant in the article “High Jinks: Shoot Out.” Why did the author say prodigious and not just say smart-and why did he make these kids out to be prodigious when what they are doing is hacking, and that could also be called illegal?. Strategies of Performance Revealed in Graphs. Elaine Chew. ELE021 / ELED021 / ELEM021. 6 Feb 2012. Logistics. 2-3 papers/presentations per week. two volunteers for afternoon of Mon, 27 Feb, 2012. Exam questions will be drawn from readings/presentations and assignments. Prosody. Sometimes we put some spoken utterances in double quotation marks to distinguish them from the sentences. . In speech, the way we use to say something is very important to make the message clear.. What is Mood?. How are Tone and Mood Effective in Writing?. WHAT IS MOOD?. Mood is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words. . It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words. . author’s attitude toward the writing . (his characters, the situation) and the readers. A work of writing can have more than one tone. An example of tone could be both serious and humorous. Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details. . Athletics. Tone: How does this basketball player seem to feel after a game?. Romantic. Annoyed. Ecstatic. Modest. Mary . Poppins. Tone: How does this nanny seem to feel toward her new charges?. Motherly. Tone: The . writer’s . attitude towards the subject of the piece, the audience, and self. Also known as, the . way . feelings are expressed. . Conveyed through the use of:. Diction (the words that the author uses in his/her writing). Foot: basic unit of stressed and unstressed syllables. Usually 2 or 3 syllables. Rhythm (continued). Meter: Rhythm that follows a regular pattern from line to line. . Trimeter. : 3 feet. Tetrameter: 4 feet. Tone and Mood “Boy, watch your tone when speaking to me” Tone: The writer’s attitude towards the subject of the piece, the audience, and self. Also known as, the way feelings are expressed. Dawn Bowers PhD LXBlonder PhD KM HeilmanCenter for Neuropsychological Studies Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory University of Florida 1991 rev1999 Page 2of 20TABLE OF CONTENTSBackgroundTheoretic Over