1. WHAT IS INTONATION?
SPEECH MELODY

2. 4 EXTRA HIGH
3 HIGH red
2 MID / joan is wearing to -
1 LOW day /

3. WHAT IS INTONATION?

4. TONE UNITTONE UNIT (TONALITY)
that woman said the husband had been unfaithful
/that woman / said the husband / had been unfaithful
/that woman said / the husband had been unfaithful /
FORM OF INTONATION

5. PROMINENCEPROMINENCE (TONICITY)
•New information / i am LISTening/
• Contrast /I am listening/
• Emphasis / i AM listening/
FORM OF INTONATION

6. TONETONE
FALLING
RISING
FALL RISING
LEVEL
/YES/
/YES/
/YES/
/YES/
FORM OF INTONATION

7. ACCENTUAL FUNCTIONACCENTUAL FUNCTION
/john will come to the PARty with me /
/john will come to the party with ME /
/JOHN will come to the party with me /
/john WILL come to the party with me /
/john will COME to the party with me /
/john will come TO the party with me /
/john will come to THE party with me /
/john will go to the party WITH me /

8. GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONGRAMMATICAL FUNCTION
•DEMARCATIVE (TONALITY)
•/the students who read the chapters easily passed the exam/
•/the students /who read the chapters/ easily passed the exam/
•/the students /who read the chapters easily /passed the exam/
•/the students who read the chapters easily /passed the exam/
•/the students who read the chapters/ easily passed the exam/

9. •SYNTACTIC (TONE)
/they are COMing/
/they are COMing/
AFFIRMATIVE
INTERROGATIVE

10. ATTITUDINAL FUNCTIONATTITUDINAL FUNCTION

11. DISCOURSE FUNCTIONDISCOURSE FUNCTION
•FOCUSING / INFORMATIONAL
NEW VS. OLD
• COHESIVE
ORGANIZATION OF SPOKEN DISCOURSE

12. •INDEXICAL:
PERSONAL OR SOCIAL IDENTITY.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL:
• ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHTS

13. •INTUITIVE APPROACH: Interacting with native
speakers
• EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION: Conciously analysing and
practising the English intonation system
•REALISTIC GOALS:
Functional intelligibility
Functional communicability
Increased self-confidence
Speech monitoring abilities