Phonetics II- Florencia Suarez

Intonation
Definition:

Tench Wells OConnor & Arnold
It concerns pitch
features
It concerns the
melody of speech
It concerns melodies
and tunes
It conveys linguistic
meaning
It conveys linguistic
and pragmatic
meaning
It is the musical
feature of English
It deals with
utterances
It deals with speech It deals with spoken
language
Use of pitch:
something that the
speaker can
manipulate
Use of pitch:
something that the
speaker can
manipulate

It can be
systematize
It can be
systematize
They use the word
patterns. So it is
implied some kind
of system within
intonation

Functions:

Tench Wells O Connor & Arnold
Organizational Focusing/ Accentual/
Informational

Psychological The division of utterances
into grammatically relevant
word groups
Communicative/
Illocutionary

Attitudinal Attitudinal The expression of the
speakers attitude, at the
moment of speaking, to the
situation in which he is
placed
Grammatical/ Syntactic Grammatical The use of different tunes,
different patterns of pitch,
for grammatical purposes
Textual Discoursal/ Cohesive
Stylistic
Indexical