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Proceedings of the 1st Universitas Kuningan International Conference on Social Science, Environment and Technology, UNiSET 2020, 12 December 2020, Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia

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Suprasegmentally Feature of Intonation in English Debate: A Praat Analysis

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.12-12-2020.2304968,
        author={Wulan  Rahmatunisa and Syahrul  Syarifudin},
        title={Suprasegmentally Feature of Intonation in English Debate: A Praat Analysis},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Universitas Kuningan International Conference on Social Science, Environment and Technology, UNiSET 2020,  12 December 2020, Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={UNISET},
        year={2021},
        month={3},
        keywords={intonation; suprasegmentally; praat; debate},
        doi={10.4108/eai.12-12-2020.2304968}
    }
    
  • Wulan Rahmatunisa
    Syahrul Syarifudin
    Year: 2021
    Suprasegmentally Feature of Intonation in English Debate: A Praat Analysis
    UNISET
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.12-12-2020.2304968
Wulan Rahmatunisa1,*, Syahrul Syarifudin1
  • 1: Universitas Kuningan, Indonesia
*Contact email: wulan.rahmatunisa@uniku.ac.id

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing intonation as the element of suprasegmentally by using PRAAT program. The data was taken from the English debate competition involving college students. The English debate demands that students not only be able to express ideas in English, but also require students to be able to master global knowledge, analyze, make judgments, and convince the public. This makes suprasegmentally study in the debate discourse is important to be investigated. The present study employs descriptive qualitative approach. PRAAT program version 6.0.33 is used to analyze intonation patterns. The results show that the pressure and intonation in the speech is caused by a factor of the situation which semantically can create differences in meaning. It is coherent with the statement from Nespor & Vogel (2007) that semantic factors have a relation to an interest and strength, such as the level of utterance and the intonation contour style contained in the speech. In conclusion, differences in meaning in the context of discourse can occur naturally depending on the situation of the speech.

Keywords
intonation; suprasegmentally; praat; debate
Published
2021-03-02
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.12-12-2020.2304968
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