Thursday, July 19, 2012

accentual prominence in English


  • pitch accents
  • strategies to achieve the above
  • jaw lowering
  • and/or lingual (tongue) manipulation
  • I used to think that lingual (tongue) and mandible are both needed to articulate vowels.
  • I was disabused of this notion by someone I know. One can fix the mandible and manipulate the tongue to articulate vowels and vice-versa. 
  • J.C. Catford in his book discusses about this.
  • http://www.assta.org/sst/SST-96/cache/SST-96-Chapter18-p25.pdf



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