Pitch
It is voice level.
What is pitch?
Thought groups exist for this reason.
What is make language easier to understand?
This makes English easier to understand when reading rather than listening.
What is linking?
This is another word for stress.
What is emphasis, strength, pressure?
This is the pitch level of whispering.
What is 1?
This action creates thought groups.
What is pausing?
Vowel to vowel linking is done with these phonemes as connectors.
What are /y/ and /w/?
We stress this is a normal sentence.
What is a content word?
This is the pitch level of what is normal for you.
What is 2?
What is punctuation?
With consonant to same consonant linking we pronounce the linking consonant this many times.
What is once?
This type of word receives less stress.
What is a function word?
This is the pitch level of yelling or extreme emotion.
What is 4?
Individual thought groups may contain grammatical elements.
What are noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and relative clauses?
These are the four ways of linking that we studied.
What are vowel to vowel, consonant to vowel, vowel to consonant, and consonant to same consonant?
This type of stress is used to show a difference in emphasis.
What is contrastive stress?
This is the pitch level of an emphasized word within a sentence or question.
What is one?
When /y/ and /w/ are at the beginning of a word they are considered to be these.
What are consonants?
A stressed syllable is usually pronounced this way.
WHat is louder and longer?