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Exploring Segmentals and Suprasegmentals in English Pronunciation

Learn about segmentals and suprasegmentals in English pronunciation at the Faculty of Letters, Gunadarma University. Segmentals are sound units in sequential order, while suprasegmentals include stress, pitch, length, and intonation. Discover examples and features of stress, pitch, and intonation, including falling, rising, and sustained intonation contours. Dive into the differences in syllable stress in monosyllabic, two-syllabic, and three-syllabic words. Explore how length varies in diphthongs, vowels, and syllables. Access materials on consonants, vowels, diphthongs, syllables, and more. Improve your English pronunciation skills with this comprehensive guide.

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Exploring Segmentals and Suprasegmentals in English Pronunciation

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  1. PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS GUNADARMA UNIVERSITY

  2. Segmentals and Suprasegmentals • Segmentals: 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 Example: caught – cot, cord – cod 3. Vowel in open syllable is longer than in a closed syllable

  15. 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

  17. THANK YOU

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