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音 外露 ,英國英語聲音 內(nèi)含 ;美國英語 嗓門大 ,英國英語聲音小 ;美國英語 張揚 ,英國英語說話 謹慎 而顯得 紳士 ;說美國英語時要穿上 牛仔褲指手畫腳帶動作 才行,否則聲音大而沒動作就別扭;說英國英語時要 板起面孔 來穿上 燕尾服 手拄著拐杖“裝” 貴族 才行,要是指手畫腳就別扭。 tonicity decides the focus of information。 and tone decides the concrete meaning of information except the lexical meanings which is decided by words. how the three Ts works in intonation system Structure of Intonation ?In a tone unit, there are words with different significance. Speakers usually want to make some words stand out as the focus of the information by adding accent and pitch movement. ?Each tone unit contains one piece of information, namely one focus of information. The nucleus is attached to the focus of information Structure of Intonation Stressed syllables in these words are the nucleus of this tone unit and they are obligatory. Syllables before or after the nucleus are optional and are termed as “prehead”, “head” and “tail” according to the traditional British approach. The most mon position for the tonic or nucleus is on the last lexical term (. content words) such as nouns, verbs, adverbs of the tone unit. Structure of Intonation ? All the syllables that follow the nucleus pose the tail of the tone unit which is posed of an unspecified number of stressed and unstressed syllables (at least of either) Structure of Intonation ?The head extends from the first accented syllable in the tone unit to the last syllable before the nucleus. The first accented syllable is called the onset. ? The part before the onset, is the prehead. Structure of Intonation ?Given the above, the structure of the tone unit can be summarized as: ?(Prehead) (Head) Nucleus (Tail). ?All the possible tone unit structures: 8 ? PHNT, N, PN, NT, HNT, PNT, PHN, HN. Structure of Intonation Execise ?A: A |dog is a |man’ s |best pany.‖(PHNT) ?B: Yes, | it is.‖ (N) (PN) ?A: Cats are also |man’ s |bes