Combination of melody and rhythm (Gilbert).

Suprasegmental aspects of speech.

Involves the distribution of stress, intonation and rhythm.

Movements or variations in pitch (Ranalli).

Intonation contours and pitch movements create the ‘melody’ of speech.

Helps convey different communicative functions, such as questioning, emphasis or statement.

Noticeable events happening at regular intervals of time.

Prosodic feature that deals with the perception of weaker and stronger syllables as they succeed each other in words and utterances. 

Involves the combination of any of the 4 phonetic features responsible for prominence.

Basic unit of English rhythm = syllable. *each S has a V as its nucleus

Wrong stress is an added burden for listeners. In many cases, it leads to conversational breakdowns.

Students who are taught about English prosodic patterns often report improved understanding of speech.

Thought group: group of words that may be a short sentence, a clause, or a phrase within a longer sentence.

• Has one idea.

• Last word usually has the most emphasis.

• Are usually divided based on grammar.

Focus word: most important word in the thought group. Usually a content word (N, V, Av, or Aj)

Stress: within the focus word, one syllable is given the main stress.

Peak: that syllable functions as the peak of information within the thought group. Also known as nucleus.

Phonological property of words that represents the potential for a syllable to be accented in connected speech.

Abstract, lexical feature stored in the mental lexicon and indicated by marks for primary and secondary stress.

Analytical.

Phonetic feature of speech that makes certain syllables or words stand out in an utterance (Ortiz).

Primarily achieved through:

• Pitch movement (high to low)

• Loudness (loud to soft)

• Length (long to short)

• Vowel quality (feature in terms of which 2 sounds are perceived as different)

Refers to the salient syllable in a word.

Property of connected speech.

Concrete, contextualized category whose main feature is being a pitch movement initiator.

Perceptible.

Stress is a potential for accent and accent is the realization of stress.