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Spanish vs English Phonological Rhythm

The document discusses the phonological system which is the study of speech sounds, their distribution and patterns. It covers topics like stress, rhythm, accent and intonation. It also compares the phonological systems of Spanish and English, noting that Spanish is syllable-timed while English is stress-timed.

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Spanish vs English Phonological Rhythm

The document discusses the phonological system which is the study of speech sounds, their distribution and patterns. It covers topics like stress, rhythm, accent and intonation. It also compares the phonological systems of Spanish and English, noting that Spanish is syllable-timed while English is stress-timed.

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Phonetics

(study of production + reception + classification of speech sounds)


+ phonology
(Study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds
The nature of
speech

Speech sounds can be classified into


Individual sounds
Glides
Prosodies

Stress = force with which a sound is uttered. Stress can be found in


affixes, suffixes, words to mark a functional variatin (noun vs verb)
and compound words
Phonological system III: accent, rythm and Within the sentence content words have the stress
intonation.
Comparison with the phonological system of
the oficlal langauge of the corresponding
autonomous community
Rhythmic group
1. Rhythm (alternationn of weak and strong
syllables)
(sucession of strons and
weak forms)
+
2. Intonation
The nature of
speech (voice rises and falls)
Two functions: attitudinar/
nucleus + head+ pre- Meaning of the tone
grammatical or accentual
head + tail intonantion Fall Rise Fall-rise Rise-fall

Spanish
Syllable-timed
Comparing English and three intonation: declarative,
Spanish phonological interrogative, exclamative
systems

English
Stress-timed
Four intonations

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