Special education of the republic of uzbekistan

Fall-Rise spread over two syllables

Model : ˎSomeˏtimes  

The fall of the voice starts from a fairly high or medium pitch and usually ends rather low. The rise begins very low and doesn’t go up too high.

Fall Rise spread over a number of syllables

Model : ˎHe can ˏmanage it  . . ^.

In this case the fall is on the stressed syllable and the rise is separated from the fall by one or more syllables. The syllables between the fall and the rise are always on a very low level.

Exercises
1. Read carefully the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the reply. Pronounce it with Intonation Pattern VI.

Verbal Context Drill

S t a t e m e n t s (expressing concern, hurt feelings,

reproach, contradiction, correction, contrast)

Nobody worked at the lab yesterday. I did.

I shall never speak to him again. “Never” is a very dangerous word.

That’s a fine book, isn’t it? Parts of it are fairly interesting.

I’ll give him a good piece of my mind. That won’t get us very far.

What do you do on Sunday? Usually, I spend it out of town.

He knows English and French. German and French you mean.

I don’t think he’s worse now. When I saw him, he was much better.

Can you speak English? Once I could.

You have four lessons today. Five.

It’s nearly five, isn’t it? Six.

May I keep this book a bit longer? Well, yes.

It won’t take you long. It will.

2. Read the joke. Find the main phrase in the text. Split up each sentence into intonation-groups, mark the stresses and tunes. Underline the communicative center and the nuclear word of each intonation-group.

Peggy, aged five, said she had a stomachache.

“It’s because you haven’t had lunch yet,” said her mother. “You would feel better if you had something in it.”

That afternoon their neighbour called and remarked while speaking to the mother that he had a bad headache. “That’s because it’s empty,” said Peggy. “You’d feel better if you had something in it.”