FAMILIAR (CONVERSATIONAL) STYLE

All the exercises given here for Groups I—VIII are meant to develop your ability to reproduce intonation patterns in proper speech situations. Work at the conversational contexts in the way suggested.

Listen carefully to the conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the response. Define the sentence type and the attitude expressed in it. Mark stresses and tunes. Intone them.

GROUP I. LOW (MEDIUM) FALL

a.Listen to the stimulus and respond to it in the intervals. Make
your voice fall from a low or medium level to the bottom of
the pitch when pronouncing the nuclear tone.

b. Pronounce each response several times until it sounds per­
fectly natural to you.

.c. Listen to your fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him what his errors in pronunciation are.

Pattern One. (Low Рте-Nucleus +) Low Fall (+ Tail)

Model: Can you do it alone? Of _xcourse I can.

Stimulus Response

Whose pen is this? Patricia's.

Who can say it? I think Mary can.

Pattern Two. (Low Pre-Head+) FallingHead + Low FaU(+ Tail)

Model: What shall I do You are ^v free to do with it

with it? what 'ever you ^like.

Stimulus Response

When are we to go there? Sometime towards the end of next

month.
He is a reliable fellow. What makes you think he is

honest?

. Pattern Three. (Low Pre-Head +) High (Medium) Level Head

+ Low Fall (+Tail)

Model: Have you any news We haven't "* heard from
of Tom? him for _xages.

Stimulus Response

What about the jacket? It won't do at all.

What's the time, please? Four o'clock.