Suprasegmentally Feature of Intonation in English Debate: A Praat Analysis

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing intonation as the element of suprasegmentally by using PRAAT program. The data was taken from the English debate competition involving college students. The English debate demands that students not only be able to express ideas in English, but also require students to be able to master global knowledge, analyze, make judgments, and convince the public. This makes suprasegmentally study in the debate discourse is important to be investigated. The present study employs descriptive qualitative approach. PRAAT program version 6.0.33 is used to analyze intonation patterns. The results show that the pressure and intonation in the speech is caused by a factor of the situation which semantically can create differences in meaning. It is coherent with the statement from Nespor & Vogel (2007) that semantic factors have a relation to an interest and strength, such as the level of utterance and the intonation contour style contained in the speech. In conclusion, differences in meaning in the context of discourse can occur naturally depending on the situation of the speech.

Exploring the Variation of Third Tone Sandhi in Native Chinese Mandarin: An Acoustic Analysis

“…The transcription data that contains Mandarin tone features were processed in the computer program PRAAT6310. PRAAT6310 version is the software that is used to analyse flexible sound analysis and reconstruction, its functions can range from spectrogram analysis, the sound reconstruction itself, making diagrams, to drawings that can be used in scientific work [31]. The application of PRAAT6310 in the current research is to analyse intonation patterns, revealing the variations of pitch contours in terms of the T3 sandhi rule.…”

“…Acoustic analysis using a qualitative description approach fits the purpose of the current study, as this approach provides a situational description and interpretation of phenomena, experiences, and perceptions [29][30]. Thus, this approach enables researchers to share the understanding and perceptions of others, and to explore how people organise and give meaning to their daily lives [31]. Therefore, the present study adopted a qualitative descriptive approach in order to describe and explain the acoustic features in terms of the sandhi T3 in standard Chinese.…”

An analysis of the acoustic features of English intonation for English professionals by integrating image and video analysis

“…Convolutional neural network image extraction is used to summarize the attention mechanism in the definition of intonation acoustics in English majors and its role in fusion. English intonation acoustics refers to the intonation features of the previous part in the intonation nucleus process [5].…”