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different structures on the sentence by dividing it into different intonation units, . “John didn’t e because of Marry” Within one intonation unit, it means: John came, but it had nothing to do with Marry. With two intonation units, it means: Marry was the reason why John didn’t e. Exercises: Think of the utterance in different intonations: “Those who bought quickly made a profit.” Grammatical functions of intonations c) It can make a certain part of a sentence especially prominent by placing nucleus on it, . Jack came yesterday by train. Grammatical functions of intonations d) Its attitudinal functions. ? Falling tone matteroffact statement, downright assertion, mands. ? Rising tone politeness, encouragement, pleading. Note: these can only be very general indications. The specific attitudinal meaning of an intonation pattern must be interpreted within a context. A summary ? The phonic medium of language What is phoics? (definition and 3 branches) ? Organs of speech: 3 cavities ? Phoics ? Orthographic representation of speech sounds (2) ? Classification of English speech sounds (2) ? Phonology and phoics ? Phone, phoneme and allophone ? Phonology Phonemic contrast, plementary distribution and minimal pair ? Some rules in phonology (3) ? Suprasegmental features (stress, tone, and intonation) ? 1. Review. ? 2. Prepare L 16 Homework 1. What is the difference between phoics and phonology? 2. Prepare Chapter 3