Lesson 4

RHYTHM

Regular.

Each melodic tone expresses a certain attitude to the utterance and it is used to arrange its definite communicative types. As a rule, falling tones express the completeness of the utterance, rising tones express its incompleteness, doubt, uncertainty.

In the English language there is a tendency to pronounce stressed syllables of the sentences in more or less equal periods of time. As a result the speed of not stressed syllables pronunciation is changed according to their quantity. I.e. a sentence is pronounced quicker, if there are many unstressed syllables in it and it is pronounced slower, if there are few of them in the sentence. It gives the English language a certain rhythm. In any English sentence or syntagma the number of rhythmical groups is equal to the number of stressed syllables. A rhythmical group may consist of one stressed word or, what is more often, of one syllable and one or several unstressed syllables.

'Why,not? It's a 'lovely,day.

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