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Isfd 19 Profesorado de Inglés. Lengua y Expresión Oral 3. Profesora Scándali Andrea. Prosody

This document contains 13 questions about prosody and pronunciation for an English language and oral expression class. The questions cover topics such as the definition of pronunciation and its elements; suprasegmental features like intonation, pitch, tone, stress, and their functions; differences between phonetic duration and phonological length; importance of perceiving suprasegmentals; how pronunciation relates to acquisition difficulties; features of connected speech; why voice quality is part of prosody; differences between suprasegmentals and segmentals; vowels and consonants; and how gestures can help teach pronunciation. The questions are intended for students in the class to discuss and learn about various aspects of prosody in spoken English.

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Isfd 19 Profesorado de Inglés. Lengua y Expresión Oral 3. Profesora Scándali Andrea. Prosody

This document contains 13 questions about prosody and pronunciation for an English language and oral expression class. The questions cover topics such as the definition of pronunciation and its elements; suprasegmental features like intonation, pitch, tone, stress, and their functions; differences between phonetic duration and phonological length; importance of perceiving suprasegmentals; how pronunciation relates to acquisition difficulties; features of connected speech; why voice quality is part of prosody; differences between suprasegmentals and segmentals; vowels and consonants; and how gestures can help teach pronunciation. The questions are intended for students in the class to discuss and learn about various aspects of prosody in spoken English.

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ISFD 19

Profesorado de Inglés.
Lengua y Expresión Oral 3.
Profesora Scándali Andrea.
Prosody.

1. What’s pronunciation? What are the elements of pronunciation? Do you believe it’s one of the
most difficult aspects of English to acquire? Support your ideas.
2. What are the prosodic or suprasegmental features of a language?
3. What’s intonation? What are the functions of intonation? Name three major approaches to
intonation. What are the major patterns of tones? Provide examples.
4. What’s “pitch” in spoken language? Is it related to the articulatory or acoustic system?
5. What’s a “tone”? Is it always a prosodic feature of a language?
6. Find a synonym for “stress”. What do we mean by stress and its “phonetic correlates”? What
else is involved when we refer to “stress”? What’s the tonic syllable? How is it connected to
thought groups? What’s contrastive stress?
7. Compare and contrast phonetic duration and phonological length.
8. Why is it important to perceive the suprasegmental features of speech?
9. Why is pronunciation important? Go back to question 1. Add any further details.
10. Features of connected speech. Describe them providing examples.
11. Why is voice quality included as an aspect of prosody?
12. How are the suprasegmental features of speech different from the segmental ones? What
conditions the way we produce an individual sound? What are vowels and consonants? What
aspects should we mention when describing them? Mention possible difficulties when learning
a sound.
13. How can gestures help in the teaching of pronunciation?

ISFD 19
Profesorado de Inglés.
Lengua y Expresión Oral 3.
Profesora Scándali Andrea.
Prosody.

1. What’s pronunciation? What are the elements of pronunciation? Do you believe it’s one of the
most difficult aspects of English to acquire? Support your ideas.
2. What are the prosodic or suprasegmental features of a language?
3. What’s intonation? What are the functions of intonation? Name three major approaches to
intonation. What are the major patterns of tones? Provide examples.
4. What’s “pitch” in spoken language? Is it related to the articulatory or acoustic system?
5. What’s a “tone”? Is it always a prosodic feature of a language?
6. Find a synonym for “stress”. What do we mean by stress and its “phonetic correlates”? What
else is involved when we refer to “stress”? What’s the tonic syllable? How is it connected to
thought groups? What’s contrastive stress?
7. Compare and contrast phonetic duration and phonological length.
8. Why is it important to perceive the suprasegmental features of speech?
9. Why is pronunciation important? Go back to question 1. Add any further details.
10. Features of connected speech. Describe them providing examples.
11. Why is voice quality included as an aspect of prosody?
12. How are the suprasegmental features of speech different from the segmental ones? What
conditions the way we produce an individual sound? What are vowels and consonants? What
aspects should we mention when describing them? Mention possible difficulties when learning
a sound.
13. How can gestures help in the teaching of pronunciation?

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