SP Module 6 Prosody

Connected and Citation Speech

Connected speech differs from the citation form.

Connected Speech Processes

Connected speech forms are highly variable as the result of a number of processes that apply to consonants and vowels.

Prosodic Structure

Prosody is the combination of speech properties that break speech into units of time, indicate the boundaries of those units, and highlight certain constituents.

A constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure.

Glottalisation

Glottalisation is known by many names including laryngealisation, creaky voice, creaky phonation and vocal fry.

overlap with other articulations of speech in a way that necessitates another layer of annotation.

Accents of English

Accents are language varieties that differ from one another only in pronunciation.

口音&方言