标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 1 Track 12(在线收听) |
Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reason s for Intonation CD 1 Track 12 Depending on the situation, a word may be stressed for any of the following reasons: New Information Opinion Contrast "Can't" 1. New Information It sounds like rain. Rain is the new information. It's the most important word in that sentence and you could replace everything else with duh-duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh rain will still let you get your point across. V Repeat: Duh-duh-duh rain I It sounds like rain. 图片1
V Make rain very musical and put it on two notes: ray-ayn. Duh-duh-duh ray-ayn / It sounds like ray-ayn. 2. Opinion It sounds like rain, but I don't think it is.
In this case, intonation makes the mean ing the opposite of what the words say: It looks like a diamond, but I think it's a zircon. It smells like Chanel, but at that pr ice, it's a knock-off. It feels like... It tastes like... These examples all give the impression that you mean the opposite of what your senses tell you. V Practice the intonation difference be tween new information and opinion: It sounds like rain. (It's rain.) It sounds like rain, (but it's not.) 3. Contrast He likes rain, but he hates snow. Like and hate are contrasted and are the stronger words in the sentence. 4. Can't It can't rain when there're no clouds. Contractions (shouldn't, wouldn't) and negatives (no, not, never) are important words since they totally negate the meaning of a sentence, but they are not usually stressed. Can't is the exception. |
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