Unit 17

(Intonation 3)
By : Pika cania and Andy
 Fall-rise and rise-fall tones followed by
a tail
Fall- rise and rise-fall tones, However , can be quite difficult to recognize when
they are extended over tails, since their characteristic pitch movements are often
broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they occur on. For example,
the pitch movement on. Some will be something like this :
if there are no voiceless medial consonants to cause break in the voicing.
In this case it would be possible to say that here is a falling tone on ‘some’ and a
rise on ‘ chairs’
If then is no stressed syllable in the tail, the rise happens on the final syllable
 However, can be quite difficult to recognise when they are
extended over tails, since their characteristic pitch movements are
often broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they
occur on.

-It is quite difficult to recognize when they are extended over

tails.
-If there is a tai of 2 or more syllables, the normal pitch
movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to
remain low until the last syllable in the tail.
Fall-rise the tonic syllable is usually the one that carries the pitch movement,
but... One syllable compound tone units two tonic syllables
incomplete tone units
Two or more syllables
Normal pitch movement
tonic syllable + tail
level tones vSOME
tonic syllable = most prominent syllable
incomplete tone units
Two or more syllables
Normal pitch movement
tonic syllable + tail
level tones vSOME
tonic syllable = most prominent syllable
 If there is no stressed
syllable in the tail
The "rise" part of the tone takes place on the first (tonic) syllable
and the "fall" part is on the second.
HEAD:
All that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed
syllable up to, but not including, the tonic syllable
Different pitch possibilities
 High and low heads
High and low heads
In the case of high head, the stressed syllable which begins the
head is high in pitch, usually it is higher than the beginning pitch of
the tone on the topic syllable. For example :
In the low head stressed syllable which begins the head is low in
pitch. To mark this stressed syllable in the low head we will use a
different symbol, as in low.
• The high head the stressed syllable which begins the head is high
in pitch.

The low head → the stressed syllable which begins the head is low
in pitch.
Thank you