 Relationship between pronunciation and intonation
A question--if I may. If you had to give a rise to one word and a fall to another in the minimal pairs below, how would you do it?
rice lice
race lace
free flee
I've asked a few native speakers around me this, and some say the pairs have the same intonation, but when they are forced into assigning a rising or a falling intonation to the words, they all do it in the same way. My contention is that if you simply correct the intonation of someone learning English (Japanese, in my case), then their pronunciation corrects itself. Any comments about this off-the wall approach? Does anyone know of any studies done on the relationship between pronunciation and intonation? |