Белорусский государственный

transcription
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phonemic
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Tail
– unstressed or partially stressed syllables (or syllable) that follow the nucleus of the 
intonation group. 
Tap
– a very brief speech sound in which the tongue is flicked up against the roof of the 
mouth, interrupting the flow of air. Cf. 
flap
. 
Target position
– an idealized articulatory position that can be used as a reference point in 
describing how a speaker produces utterances. 
Tempo
– the rate of the utterance and pausation, it is often measured in syllables per second 
or average syllable length in milliseconds (ms). 
Temporal component of intonation:
it consists of pauses, duration, rhythm. 
Tense
– historically long vowels in the articulation of which muscular tension of speech 
organs is great: /i:, ɑ:, ɔ:, u:, ɜ:/. In English, the tense vowels are those that can occur in stressed 
open syllables such as [ɔ:] in 
bore
. 
Terminal tone
– the nucleus and the tail of the utterance; a change of pitch at the junction 
(the joining of two sounds or words) of two sense-groups. 
Tertiary stress
– a less strong stress than the primary one, usually follows the primary 
stress in a word. 
Theoretical Phonetics
– a branch of phonetics which is mainly concerned with the 
functioning of phonetic units in the language. It discusses the problems of phonetics in academic 
terms and gives a scientific approach to the phonetic theory. 
Theory of muscular tension
(or 
the articulatory effort theory
) – according to this theory 
a syllable is characterized by variations in muscular tension. The energy of articulation increases at 
the beginning of a syllable, reaches its maximum with the vowel (or a sonant) and decreases 
towards the end of the syllable. So, the syllable is an arc of muscular tension.