SPA 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fundamental Frequency, Phoneme, Ob River

• School: UCF
• Department: Speech Pathology and Audiology
• Course: SPA 3011
• Professor: Ryalls

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Prosod(cid:455): what (cid:455)ou (cid:373)a(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s thought of as a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e. Prosody: clues on gender, age, accent, ethnic backgrounds, One way to think about prosody is to think of the message as the phonemic content and then there is what the speaker feel about this message. These messages are separate they can be a variance with each other: (cid:862)i feel great toda(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894)said u(cid:374)e(cid:454)(cid:272)iti(cid:374)g(cid:895) or the opposite (cid:862)i felt reall(cid:455) terri(cid:271)le a(cid:271)out the (cid:272)ar a(cid:272)(cid:272)ide(cid:374)t! (cid:863) i(cid:374) a (cid:271)u(cid:271)(cid:271)l(cid:455) to(cid:374)e is inappropriate. Not all uses of prosody is completely phonetic in nature. Cases where the difference between words is made because of prosodic difference, such as the one in juncture discussed in the book. There is a whole lists of word pairs in english, based on the difference in which syllable gets the stress. There is also a difference in vowel quality because of centralization in english, but think of noun-verb pairs like: