Gimson's pronunciation of english part 25. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 310 Words and Connected Speech 1 Accent and intonation In al styles of speech simple falls in pitch whether from a high or a mid starting point account for the majority of nuclear tones between 60 and 70 in most conversations. The falling-rising nuclear tone accounts on average for roughly 20 . Thus it may be seen that speech exhibiting a large number of rises or rise-falls is conspicuous in this respect. Casual speech has longer intonational phrases and contains fewer accented syllables than formal speech. Intonation patterns In casual speech generally show no particularly marked patterns of use of nuclear tones. Formal speech often shows a concentration of fall-rises or sim-pie rises . If you pull them off I and put them in a glass of .water I they grow little roots I and .then I yon plant them in .soil I and they row I and then you ve got a nother spider plant. 2 Weak forms The use of strong and weak forms docs not appear to be a matter of style except insofar as the more frequent occurrence of strong forms in more formal situations results from additional accents. The alternation of strong and weak forms is entirely regular in both formal and casual styles of speech weak forms occur unless the grammatical word is accented. Since accents are more frequent in the intonational phrases of formal speech strong forms occur more often. 3 Linking t As with weak forms linking ZrZ is frequent In all styles of speech though an r link is not necessarily used on every occasion where such an Insertion would be possible. See . Its occurrence is of no stylistic significance. The avoidance of intrusive r results from a deliberate carefulness shown by some speakers. 4 Assimilation Assimilations occur in all styles of speech. But unassimilated forms generally occur more often than assimilated forms which tend to increase in frequency in the more casual style of speech regardless of rate of utterance. The fact that rate of utterance has no direct effect on the use of .
