American English Intonation: Vietnamese accents

By Ky V Bui

Book Overview

Common simple or compound sounds, heard in English, are introduced and classified, by nomen-define classification, into colloquial-compose accents, colloquial-intonate accents, critical-emphatic accents, critical-aid accents, front-aid accents, tail-aid accents and critical-mix accents.

A critical-emphatic accent or critical-intonate accent can be classified, by its grammatical, syntactic or punctuative role, as an informative-attention accent, coordinate-list accent, end-clause accent, end-inverseclause accent, interrupt-block accent, inverse-block accent, infinitive-verb accent or colon-introduce accent.

A comprehensive set of colloquial-intonate rules are designed according to which the critical-emphatic syllable of any identified colloquial-intonate word is modulated with a colloquial-intonate accent so as to connote a colloquial-intonate sense that is equivalent to a written punctuative sense indicated or implicated by an inter-word sign- ie. a space, coma, semicolon or hyphen.

The intonation of a front-sentence unit is composed by applying intonative rules on every identified critical or emphatic word to modulate its critical-intonate syllable with a critical emphatic accent represented by a colloquial-intonate symbol, such as an intonate-outline, draft, graph or diacritic symbol, drawn adjacently above or below the same syllable.

The intonation of a tail-sentence unit is composed by applying tail-intonate rules on an identified tail-sentence unit, in the tail-modulate investigation of the tail-characterize treatment of a specified intonative system, to modulate it with a primary or elongative pitch-distribute pattern-ie. a tail-intonate pattern represented by a glissando or slur-ie. a 3-pitch transition.

The intonation of a whole written statement, made up of the intonations of a front and tail-sentence units, is illustrated by an intonative illustrative diagram made up of colloquial intonative symbols concatenated or interconnected with straight-dash lines marked with intonative markers-ie. a vertical bar or arrow head- at critical points.

A practical application of intonative rules or diagrams is illustrated or explained in the following circumstance or example:

As an American speaks English in a hurry, he happens to pronounce an inter-word pause as equally long as inter-syllable pause. Because the original inter-border pattern, formed & observable conspicuously in a specified written statement, is lost or becomes obscure in the corresponding spoken statement; so, it is impossible to recognize each separate constituent word of the spoken statement.

In order to restore the original inter-border pattern as well as to aid in textual recognition, each hidden interword border, located thruout the whole statement, should be marked out conspicuously according to the following scheme:

The last syllable of every intonative word identified in the front unit should be modulated with a critical emphatic accent to mark out the following interword border on its right side.Every trivial interword border, not preceded by any intonative word, should be modulated so that its corresponding interword pause becomes distinctively longer than an uniform inter-syllable pause.Either next-border syllable of every interword border, located in a tail-sentence unit, including the front-tail border, should be elongated or modulated with a tail-aid or elongate accent to mark out the next or adjacent interword border.

After conducting such aid-recognition scheme, because every interword border becomes conspicuous again; so, every separate word of the spoken statement can be identified clearly so as to understand its meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 173621750X
• ISBN13: 9781736217504
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: KY Bui
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"