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    The document discusses errors in suprasegmental features found in non-native English speech. It provides examples of suprasegmental features like stress, intonation, pitch, volume, rhythm and tone. Two specific errors are analyzed: a stress error on the word "miserable" where the non-native speaker stressed the wrong syllable, and a rhythm and intonation error in a sentence where pauses made it sound unnatural compared to the native speaker's delivery. The native speaker's intonation pattern is represented with tones to show the proper emphasis.

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    The document discusses errors in suprasegmental features found in non-native English speech. It provides examples of suprasegmental features like stress, intonation, pitch, volume, rhythm and tone. Two specific errors are analyzed: a stress error on the word "miserable" where the non-native speaker stressed the wrong syllable, and a rhythm and intonation error in a sentence where pauses made it sound unnatural compared to the native speaker's delivery. The native speaker's intonation pattern is represented with tones to show the proper emphasis.

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    The document discusses errors in suprasegmental features found in non-native English speech. It provides examples of suprasegmental features like stress, intonation, pitch, volume, rhythm and tone. Two specific errors are analyzed: a stress error on the word "miserable" where the non-native speaker stressed the wrong syllable, and a rhythm and intonation error in a sentence where pauses made it sound unnatural compared to the native speaker's delivery. The native speaker's intonation pattern is represented with tones to show the proper emphasis.

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    Errors in suprasegmental features

    According to Roach (2009), suprasegmental features are defined as sound contrasts that extend
    over several segments (phonemes). Examples of these suprasegmental features compromises stress,
    intonation, pitch, volume, rhythm and tone. The suprasegmental errors found in the non-native
    speakers recording include intonation and stress errors.

    Stress

    Stress can be defined through its production and prominence, where it uses more muscular energy
    and pressure to produce the stresses sound and being more prominent than unstressed syllables in
    terms of volume, length, pitch movement and quality from neighbouring vowels (Roach, 2009).

    According the non-native speakers speech, in the sentence Hes not happy about this and wants to
    escape his miserable existence, the speaker made a stress error in the polysyllabic word miserable
    by stressing the syllable ser. An orthographic representation of this word stress error can be
    miSERable. According to Oxford Dictionary and the native speakers speech, the syllable mis is the
    where the correct placement of stress should be. Thus, it should be /mzrbl/instead of /mzrbl/.

    Rhythm and intonation

    Roach (2009) describes rhythm as emphatic sounds occurring relatively at consistent time intervals.
    As English has a stress-timed rhythm, stress syllables occur consistently at regular intervals.
    Intonation is defined as the melody of speech and is to be analysed in terms of variations in pitch
    (Roach, 2001). Intonation can be categorised into rise, fall, rise-fall, fall-rise and neutral (Roach,
    2009). The rhythm and intonation error found in the non-native speakers speech is in the sentence
    This makes him furious and takes Huck off to live in filthy poverty down by the riverside, where he
    did use some intonation albeit with inconsistent accuracy and had no any rhythm, with long pauses
    in between phrases, making the sentence sound unnatural or awkward: This makes him FURIOUS
    and takes HUCK off TO LIVE(...) IN FILTHY (...) POVERTY (...) down by the (...) RIVERSIDE. On the other
    hand, the native speaker spoke with rhythm and intonation: this MAKES him FURIOUS and TAKES
    HUCK OFF to LIVE in FILTY poverty DOWN by the riverside, implying the emotion and how abusive
    Hucks father is by emphasising furious and down.

    Native Speakers intonation:

    Fall- Rise- Rise- Rise-


    Rise Neutral Rise-fall Neutral neutral
    rise fall fall fall
    makes and Huck
    This furious to live in filthy poverty
    him takes off
    Fall Neutral Rise-fall
    down by the riverside

    Non-native speakers intonation:


    Rise Rise Fall Fall-rise Neutral Rise Rise neutral
    This makes him furious And Takes Huck off to
    rise neutral Rise-fall Fall-rise- neutral Rise-fall
    fall
    live in filthy poverty Down by riverside
    the

    Roach, P. (2001). Phonetics. Printed in Spain by Unigraf, S. L. Oxford University Press p33

    English Oxford Living Dictionaries. (2017) https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/miserable

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    Select one error and describe one source and teaching implication

    The error I have chosen is the rhythm and intonation error in

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