英语语音PPT10-3.EnglishIntonationIII.ppt

Unit 24-27 The Use of English Intonation (II) Unit 24 Emphatic Intonation 强调句的音调 (P.132-) Please read the following sentences aloud: They flew to èLondon. They flew èto London. They èflew to London. èThey flew to London. Note: [ ? the stressed syllable of the important word (=key word, or content word) è ? the falling tune] Some concepts: Intonation unit 音调单位: it usually corresponds to a sense group (or word group) . (e.g. – Oh, / do you know one? -- Great! Let’s go.) Elements in an intonation unit The pre-head 调冠: any unstressed syllable or syllables that may precede the head - or the nucleus, if there is no head The head 调头: the part of an intonation unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to the nucleus The nucleus调核: the stressed syllable of the last content word in an intonation unit The tail 调尾: any syllable or syllables that may follow the nucleus We are LEARNing a FOReign LANGuage. P H N T P = Pre-head H = Head N = Nucleus T = Tail Therefore, the nucleus 调核 is normally the stressed syllable of the last content word in a sentence, such as “LANG” in the above-mentioned sentence.调核通常是句子中最后一个关键词（实词）的重读音节。 The nucleus is the syllable that carries the tune pattern of the sentence, i.e. the fall, the rise or the fall-rise. 调核是产生升降调的地方。 But in order to emphasize a word, we can ‘shift’ the nucleus to the stressed syllable of the word we want to emphasize. 调核可以根据强调信息的需要发生移位。 Emphatic Intonation They flew to èLondon. (simple statement. The nucleus is on the last stressed syllable of the intonation unit, which is the normal way of the sentence spoken in English.) They flew èto London. (The nucleus is on the preposition: to, which is usually unstressed. The speaker wants to highlight the direction: They flew to London, not from London. ) They èflew