Prosody Classroom

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Audio book detail

File name	Title	Length (min:sec)
r0-1	English as a stressed-timed and intonational language	12:14
r0-2	Prosodic hierarchy of English	12:12
r0-3	Organization of the book	7:29
r1-1	Part I: Word stress	8:49
r1-2	Single vowel sound	10:48
r1-3	Consonant clusters	9:43
r1-4	Affixes and compounds	8:26
r1-5	Consonants between vowels	8:37
r1-6	Stressed syllables	6:48
r1-7	Two-syllable words	10:55
r1-8	Words with more-than-three syllables	5:47
r1-9	Stress shift due to affixes	9:39
r1-10	Stress carrying suffixes	11:48
r1-11	Stress shift in words	12:24
r2-1	Part II: Compound word stress	10:08
r2-2	Double-stressed phrasal verbs	10:35
r2-3	Noun expressions	10:24
r2-4	Compound nouns	14:13
r2-5	Compound adjectives	18:17
r3-1	Part III: Rhythmic stress	7:42
r3-2	Sentence stress	10:45
r3-3	Unstressed content words	7:47
r3-4	Rhythm unit	8:54
r3-5	Isochrony	12:14
r3-6	Manners of regulating rhythm	9:21
r3-7	Vowel reduction	10:38
r3-8	Phoneme dropping in function words	9:12
r4-1	Part IV: Focus word stress	9:57
r4-2	Thought group	10:08
r4-3	Pause necessary	9:28
r4-4	Restrictive vs nonrestrictive modifiers	7:09
r4-5	Focus word and meaning	8:31
r4-6	Default place for focus words	8:47
r4-7	Non-default focus words	10:22
r4-8	For contrast	14:43
r4-9	Pitch contour	15:13
r5-1	Part V: Sentence Intonation	9:59
r5-2	Strong intonation needed	8:25
r5-3	Intonation patterns	11:50
r5-4	Falling intonation	9:19
r5-5	Rising intonation	7:11
r5-6	Four pitch levels	7:54
r5-7	Degrees of rise	10:11
r5-8	Degrees of fall	11:26
r5-9	American vs British intonation	4:56
r5-10	Intonation and its function	10:38
r5-11	Context function	9:00
	Total narration time	7 hours 50 minutes

Table of contents

Part 0. Introduction to Prosody

English as a stressed-timed and intonational language

Prosodic hierarchy of English

Part I: Word stress

Syllable counting

The English syllable

Single vowel sound

15 vowel phonemes of American English

Adjacent vowel letters

Semi-vowels

Consonant clusters

Consonant digraphs

Affixes and compounds

Double consonants

-es and -ed

Compound words

Consonants between vowels

Long vs short vowels

Syllabic consonants

Stressed syllables

Monosyllabic words

Mispronounced monosyllabic words

Two-syllable words

Mispronounced two syllable words

Three-syllable words

Words with more-than-three syllables

Secondary stress

Stress shift due to affixes

Stress-neutral suffixes

Stress-shifting suffixes

First syllable before the suffix

Second syllable before the suffix

Stress carrying suffixes

Stress with prefixes

Unstressed prefixes

Stressable prefixes

Stress shift in words

literal vs derived meaning

Different parts of speech

 

Part II: Compound word stress

Phrasal verbs

Single-stressed phrasal verbs

Stranded preposition

Stressed preposition

Double-stressed phrasal verbs

Separable Phrasal Verbs

Rhythmic stress shift

Three-part phrasal verbs

Adverb or preposition

Noun expressions

Descriptive noun phrases

Acronyms and numerals

Stress shift

Implicit contrast

Compound nouns

Types of compound nouns

Compound vs descriptive noun phrases

Gerunds vs participles

Phrasal verbs to compound nouns

Compound adjectives

Hyphens

Stress and components of compound adjectives

Stress on the first component

Stress on the second component

More than two words

The use of a singular noun form

Stress shift

 

Part III: Rhythmic stress

English, a stress-timed language

Sentence stress

Content words vs function words

Priority of nouns

Unstressed content words

Stressed function words

Rhythm unit

The poetic foot

Isochrony

Grouping into rhythm units

Manners of regulating rhythm

Rhythmic stress deletion

Rhythmic stress shift

Rhythmic vowel clipping

Vowel reduction

Elision

Syllable elision

Phoneme dropping in function words

Syllabic consonants

Contractions

 

Part IV: Focus word stress

Thought group

Pausing and change of meaning

Thought grouping

Rules of pausing

No pause

Pause necessary

Introductory phrase

Equally weighted items

Restrictive vs nonrestrictive modifiers

Focus word

Focus word and meaning

Default place for focus words

Default focus words

Non-default focus words

For emphasis

For contrast

Implicit contrast

Marked negatives

Contrastive stress shift

Pitch contour

Nuclear syllable and tonic stress

Pitch contour

Elements of the thought group

Pre-head

Head

Tail

 

Part V: Sentence Intonation

English, an intonation language

Pitch, tone and intonation

Strong intonation needed

Intonation patterns

Terminal tone

Combining intonation units

Falling intonation

Falling-falling intonation

Rising-falling Intonation

Rising intonation

Rising-rising intonation

Falling-rising intonation

Four pitch levels

Degrees of rise

Beginning pitch level

Sarcasm

Yes-no question

Rhetorical questions

Degrees of fall

Mid fall

Conversational implicatures

Steep fall

Parenthetical remarks

American vs British intonation

Intonation and its function

Grammar function

Attitude function

Context function

New vs old information

High vs low content