PROSODIC /

SUPRASEGMENTAL
PHONEMES
DINA NAILATUL KARIMAH (202012500227)
DRIFA SALSABILA (202012500261)
PROSODIC / SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES

In linguistics, prosody refers to pitch, stress, intonation and

juncture in speech. Suprasegmental, also called prosodic
feature, in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone,
or word juncture that accompanies or is added over
consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to
single sounds but often extend over syllables, words, or
phrases.
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SUPRASEGMENTAL

PITCH STRESS
PROSODIC /

PHONEMES

The normal rise and fall of The degree of force or loudness

the voice in speech. with which speaker
pronounces a sound or a
syllable.

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INTONATION JUNCTURE
The pitch of the voice with The type of connection or
which a voiced sound is pause we get between
pronounced. syllables or words.
 PITCH

The pitch produced depends upon how fast the vocal cords vibrate; the faster
they vibrate, the higher the pitch.

Example:
In English, the word “cat” said in both high or low pitch, the word
still mean “cat”. Another case, in Nigeria the word “ba” means
“to be sour” (high pitch); and “to count” (low pitch).
 STRESS

1. FIXED STRESS 2. VARIABLE STRESS

words of more than one syllable. Fixed stress has Monosyllabic words.
two degrees => prominent stress and weak
stress (or no stress).
EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE

The word "permit" said in different stress position In a sentence: Q: “How many times?” A: Four
could have different meaning as it cab be noun times. The word “times” in question is
or verb. “permit” and “permit” stressed but in the answer it is not.
INTONATION

RISING FALLING LEVEL

INTONATIO INTONATION INTONATIO
N
when the pitch of the voice When the pitch of the N of the voice
when the pitch
rises. voice falls. remains on one note for
an appreciable time.

Example:
Example: Example:
“She is a singer?”
“She is a singer” “She is a singer”
= interrogative
= declarative = informative
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CLOSE JUNCTURE

01 syllables are connected together very closely without

pause.
Example : “nitrate” = [naitreit]

OPEN JUNCTURE

02 syllables are connected together very loosely with

pause
Example : “night rate” = [nait + reit]
 CONCLUSION

Although they are treated in separate sections in this work,

segmentals and suprasegmentalsare interdependent,
whatever the language, since together they form the
phonologicalsystem of a language.
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