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| The prominance of a syllable |
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| A psycho-perceptual term which corresponds to the physical rate of vibration of the vocal folds |
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A continuous piece of speech that begins and ends with a clear pause |
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| Principle Pitch Prominance |
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The syllable in an utterance which has the most prominence and which carries the pitch movement |
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| The stressed syllable which has the most prominace and carries the most pitch movement |
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The stressed syllable which has a subsidary pitch prominance to the primary syllable but is prominant compared to its surrounding syllables.
It does not have pitch movement associated with it |
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| A stressed syllable which is defined by loudness or length |
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Bounded by pauses and is fairly easily correlated with syntatic groups
Always has a tonic syllable |
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| The most prominant syllable which carries the pitch movement |
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| The part of the tone unit extending from the first stressed syllable up to but not including the tonic syllable |
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| All the unstressed syllables in a tone unit before the first stressed syllable |
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| Any syllables stressed or unstressed that follow the tonic syllable up to the end of the tone unit |
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| The location or placement of the tonic syllable which carries pitch movement or tone |
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| The division of a utterance into tone units, indicated by the tonic syllable which is usually at the end of a tone unit and carries the change in pitch |
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Refers to the types of pitch movement which each have a supra linguistic function
Pitch can rise, fall or stay level
Simple tones have one pitch movement
Complex tones have 2: rise/fall or fall/rise |
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| A stretch of an utterance etending from one peak of stress to the next; one stressed syllable to the next |
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| the stressed syllable in the head is usually higher than the beginning pitch of the tonic, marked with a raised dash |
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| the stressed syllable in the head is usually lower than the beginning pitch of the tonic, marked with a low dash |
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| each stressed syllable in the head becomes lower approaching the level of the tonic |
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| each stressed syllable in the head becomes lower approaching the level of the tonic |
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| each stressed syllable in the head rises approaching the level of the tonic |
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| each stressed syllable in the head remains low approaching the level of the tonic |
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