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    Rhythm Tempo: Turdalieva Daria HL 2-19 A

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    Rhythm is the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines English phrasing. Rhythmical structure divides utterances into stress groups centered around stressed syllables. Tempo refers to the rate of speech and can be used to convey meaning, with slower speech emphasizing important points and faster speech diminishing emphasis. Tempo can also reflect a speaker's emotions, with fast speech expressing excitement and slow speech conveying calmness.

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    Rhythm is the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines English phrasing. Rhythmical structure divides utterances into stress groups centered around stressed syllables. Tempo refers to the rate of speech and can be used to convey meaning, with slower speech emphasizing important points and faster speech diminishing emphasis. Tempo can also reflect a speaker's emotions, with fast speech expressing excitement and slow speech conveying calmness.

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    Rhythm is the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines English phrasing. Rhythmical structure divides utterances into stress groups centered around stressed syllables. Tempo refers to the rate of speech and can be used to convey meaning, with slower speech emphasizing important points and faster speech diminishing emphasis. Tempo can also reflect a speaker's emotions, with fast speech expressing excitement and slow speech conveying calmness.

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    Rhythm Tempo: Turdalieva Daria HL 2-19 A

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    Turdalieva Daria HL 2-19 A


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     WHAT IS RHYTHM?
     RHYTHMICAL STRUCTURE
     WHAT IS TEMPO?
    What is Rhythm?
    Rhythm is the regular alternation of stressed and
    unstressed syllables.
    It is so typical of an English phrase that the incorrect
    rhythm betrays the non-English origin of the speaker
    even in cases of "correct" pronunciation.

    The phenomenon of rhythm is closely connected with


    the phonetic nature of stress.
    Rhythmical Structure
    The units of the rhythmical structure of an utterance are
    stress groups or rhythmic groups.

    The perception of boundaries between rhythmic groups is


    associated with the stressed syllables or peaks of
    prominence. Unstressed syllables have a tendency to cling to
    the preceding stressed syllables – enclitics, or to the
    following stressed syllables – proclitics.
    In English, as a rule, only initial unstressed
    syllables cling to the following stressed syllable,
    non-initial unstressed syllables are usually
    enclitics: . . . . – usual rhythm pattern,
    . . . . – exceptions with the initial unstressed
    syllables.
    Each sense-group of the sentence is pronounced at
    approximately the same period of time, unstressed
    syllables are pronounced more rapidly: the greater the
    number of unstressed syllables, the quicker they are
    pronounced.

    Proclitics are pronounced faster than enclitics.


    Rhythm is connected with sentence stress. Under the
    influence of rhythm words which are normally
    pronounced with two equally strong stresses may lose
    one of them, or may have their word stress realized
    differently.

    e. g. – ,Picca'dilly – ,Piccadilly 'Circus –


    'close to ,Picca'dilly
    ,prin'cess – a ,princess 'royal
    What is Tempo?
    The tempo is the rate at which utterances and their smaller units
    are pronounced. On the acoustic level tempo is generally
    measured by the number of syllables per second.

    Tempo of speech may be determined by different factors: the


    size of audience, the acoustic qualities of the room, the indi­
    viduality of the speaker etc. But most signifi­cant for the
    linguistic study is how variations in tempo correlate with
    changes in meaning.
    It is common knowledge that by slowing down the tempo of
    speech we can make an utterance or part of it more prominent,
    thus underlining the semantic importance of it.
    On the contrary, by increasing the speed of utterance we
    diminish promi­nence and, as a result the actual semantic
    importance of what we say.

    Tempo can also be used to express the speaker's attitude or


    emotion. For example, fast tempo may express excitement, joy,
    anger, etc. Slow tempo shows relaxation or calmness, reserved
    and phlegmatic attitude on the part of the speaker.
    Bibliography
    1. Leontyeva S. F. A theoretical course of English
    Phonetics. M., 1988. – p. 247.
    2. https://www.studopedia.org/6-60131.html

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