TYPES OF HEADS. ACCIDENTAL RISE

Every sense group (syntagm) may consist of three parts: pre-head, head, and tail. The pre-head consists of the syllables which stand before the first stressed syllable in the sense-group. The head is the main part of the syntagm and consists of all the syllables from the first stressed up to the last stressed one. The tail consists of the unstressed syllables standing after the last stressed one. The pre-head and the tail may be missing depending on the sense of the syntagm.

According to the general pitch direction heads may be descending, ascending and level. According to the direction of pitch movement within and between syllables

(a) the descending heads may be: stepping, falling, scandent, sliding

(b) ascending heads may be: rising, climbing

In general falling, stepping and level heads sound complete, definite, final, firm, more categoric and serious, persuasive, light. Scandant and sliding heads sound self-satisfied, playful, joyful, delighted, and smug.

Within long intonation groups graduallydescending heads (stepping or falling) may be broken by the so-called “accidental (special) rise”. This happens when one of the syllables is pronounced on a higher pitch level than the preceding one.
The broken descending head is very common when one particular word in a phrase should be singled out according to the speaker’s purpose.

Listen to the poem, put stress-tone marks. Find the sentences with different types of heads. Listen carefully to the sentences with accidental rise. Learn the poem by heart.

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Listen to the poem, put stress-tone marks. Mind the pronunciation of the enumeration. Learn the poem by heart.	\|	THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT

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