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    Fonetica y Fonologia Inglesa II: English and Spanish Linguistic Rhythm

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    This document discusses linguistic rhythm in English and Spanish. It defines rhythm as the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in speech. While both languages tend to stress content words, Spanish syllables have roughly equal duration whereas in English only accented syllables are prolonged. English is described as stress-timed with reduced unstressed syllables versus Spanish being syllable-timed with consistent syllable length. Implications for teaching include helping Spanish learners recognize and produce the weakened forms of unstressed syllables in English.

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    This document discusses linguistic rhythm in English and Spanish. It defines rhythm as the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in speech. While both languages tend to stress content words, Spanish syllables have roughly equal duration whereas in English only accented syllables are prolonged. English is described as stress-timed with reduced unstressed syllables versus Spanish being syllable-timed with consistent syllable length. Implications for teaching include helping Spanish learners recognize and produce the weakened forms of unstressed syllables in English.

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    IF2 RHYTHM (INTRO)

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    This document discusses linguistic rhythm in English and Spanish. It defines rhythm as the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in speech. While both languages tend to stress content words, Spanish syllables have roughly equal duration whereas in English only accented syllables are prolonged. English is described as stress-timed with reduced unstressed syllables versus Spanish being syllable-timed with consistent syllable length. Implications for teaching include helping Spanish learners recognize and produce the weakened forms of unstressed syllables in English.

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    Fonetica y

    Fonologia
    Inglesa II
    «English and Spanish
    linguistic rhythm»
    DEFINITION OF
    RHYTHM
     «Rhythm has traditionally been
    conceived as the way in which
    accented and unaccented syllables
    follow each other in the utterance»
     «In the case of English, its rhythm is
    based on a marked contrast between
    the prominent and non-prominent
    parts »
    (Finch, D & Ortiz Lira, H 1982: 115)
    SPANISH AND ENGLISH
    RHYTHM
    SIMILARITIES
     Content words (as opposed to
    grammatical words) tend to be stressed in
    both Spanish and English
    DIFFERENCES
     In Spanish, the elements which tend to occur
    regularly in the utterance are the syllables
    in general (both stressed and unstressed)
     In English, only the accented ones.
    CLASSIFICATION OF
    LINGUISTIC RHYTHM
     SYLLABLE-TIMED:
     Stressed and unstressed syllables have roughly
    the same duration
     There is no vowel weakening or syllable
    reduction ( no /@/-like vowels)
     STRESS-TIMED:
     Stressed syllables are much longer than
    unstressed ones
     Unstressed syllables get drastically
    compressed
    INSTANCES
     HeTOLD me that I was WRONG
    (there are only two rhythmical beats, the three
    syllables in between are drastically obscured and
    shortened)

     Me DIjo que esTAba equivoCAda


    (All the syllables occur regularly, they all have
    approximately the same duration)
    RULES FOR SENTENCE
    STRESS
     Without a clear understanding of rules for
    sentences stress, proper shortening of
    grammatical words is not possible.
     Only content words (nouns-adjectives-
    main verbs-adverbs-demonstrative
    and interrogative pronouns) are likely
    to carry sentence stress.
     What grammatical categories are NOT
    likely to bear sentence stress, then?
    PEDAGOGICAL
    IMPLICATIONS
     As there is no syllable reduction in Spanish,
    students fail to perceive UNSTRESS in
    English and they also fail to REDUCE
    unstressed syllables, giving the same
    duration to both stressed and unstressed
    syllables.
     Thus, rhythm sounds Spanish-like and odd.
     Students should compress and shorten
    unstressed syllables.
    Syllable duration in English
    (stress-timed rhythm)
    The children represent number and duration of
    unstressed syllables, while grownups stand for
    stressed
    syllables
    (long and
    strong)

    e.g. I could ´ve GONE to the aSSYLum


    (there are only two stressed syllables, represented
    by capital letters, the rest being unstressed)
    Syllable duration in Spanish
    (syllable-timed rhythm)
     Stressed and unstressed syllables have
    roughly the same duration (that´s why all the
    soldiers are identical in
    height and
    weight)

    e.g. Me piDIÓ que tamBIÉN le haBLAra a IRma


    (some syllables are stressed while some are
    not, yet they all have about the same duration)
    References
     Barrera Pardo, Darío «The reality of
    stress-timing», ELT Journal Vol 62/1
    January 2008/elt/com073
     Ortiz Lira, H & Finch, D A Course in
    English Phonetics for Spanish Speakers.
    London: Heinemann, 1982.
     Shnitzer, M Fonología Contrastiva
    Español-Inglés. San Juan de Puerto Rico:
    Piedras Press, 1997.

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