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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 |best |pany.‖(NT) ?B: |Men |like animals. But I hate |cats.‖(HNT) (PNT) ?A: They |behave mild. |Animals are |men’ s friends.‖(PHN) (HN) Structure of Intonation Types of nuclear tone ?(1) Low Fall ?(2) High Fall ?(3) Low Rise ?(4) High Rise ?(5) FallRise ?(6) RiseFall ?(7) Midlevel Functions of intonation (1)Grammatical function: Some sentences are ambiguous when written and their ambiguity can only be removed by using differences of tonality and tonicity. Different pitch patterns or tones in English can signal different types of sentences, or different meanings of the same word group. Removal of ambiguity ?下雨天留客天留我不留 ( 1)下雨天,留客天,留我不留? ( 2)下雨天留客,天留,我不留。October, 2023 Lecture 6 Chapter 2 Stress Intonation Suprasegmental features: stressIntonation ?Sound contrasts that extend over several segments (phonemes), and such contrasts are called suprasegmentals. ?Suprasegmental features: syllable, stress, tone, intonation Stress Definition: ?When a word has more than one syllable, one of them will be pronounced with more prominence than others. This brings us to anot