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This document discusses junctures in linguistics. A juncture is the relationship between two consecutive sounds or syllables in speech. There are several types of junctures: plus juncture occurs at word boundaries, close juncture is a transition within a word, and terminal juncture is at the end of a clause with falling pitch. Junctures help distinguish between sequences of sounds that have different meanings. Samples demonstrate close juncture within words and open juncture between words. The document also discusses how different consonant sounds transition between each other both within and between words.

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Juncture

This document discusses junctures in linguistics. A juncture is the relationship between two consecutive sounds or syllables in speech. There are several types of junctures: plus juncture occurs at word boundaries, close juncture is a transition within a word, and terminal juncture is at the end of a clause with falling pitch. Junctures help distinguish between sequences of sounds that have different meanings. Samples demonstrate close juncture within words and open juncture between words. The document also discusses how different consonant sounds transition between each other both within and between words.

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Juncture

Juncture, in linguistics, is the manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship


between two consecutive sounds. It is the relationship between two successive syllables in
speech. A juncture is, formally, a supra segmental phonemic cue, a means by which a
listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have
different meanings

Typology
There are several kinds of juncture, the most widely used typology of which is:
1. Plus juncture: Also known as open juncture, this is subdivided into internal open
juncture and external open juncture. It is the juncture that occurs at word
boundaries. In phonetic transcription open juncture is transcribed /+/, hence the
name plus juncture.
2. Close juncture: Also known as a normal transition, this is a transition between
segments (sounds) within a word.
3. Terminal juncture: Also known as falling, clause terminal or terminal contour,
this is the juncture at the end of a clause or utterances with falling pitch before a
silence.
Other less common typologies exist, such as the division (favored by
American Structuralism in the middle twentieth century) into plus, single bar, double bar,
and double cross junctures, denoted /+/, /|/, /||/, and /#/respectively. These correspond to
syllabification and differences in intonation, single bar being a level pitch before a break,
double bar being an upturn in pitch and a break, and double cross being a downturn in pitch
that usually comes at the end of an utterance.
JUNCTURE a pause or a slight delay in a continuous flow of speech. Sound transitions
characterize the movement from sound to sound within a word or a phrase.

Samples:
CLOSE JUNCTURE:
TRAIN
BLAME
MERRY
OPEN JUNCTURE:

NIGHT
BRIGHT
BLOOM

A NAME
NIGHT RATE
SHORE TRAIN
New Deal
Four met
It swings

-- AN AIM
-- NITRATE
-- SHORT RAIN
-- nude eel
-- form ate
-- its wings

SOUND:
1) Within a syllable:
Read: man car

clear bad

2) From syllable to syllable within a word:


Read: lady shadow
faith-ful
man-ly
plen-ty
live-ly
3) From word to word:
a. From one consonant to another: Plosive to plosive
Read : hot day
: It's going to be another hot day.
(First plosive is held briefly, then exploded as a part of the second.)
b) From plosive to continuant: Plosive is not exploded before the continuant but becomes
part of the latter.
Read: Hot water
without money
She drunk the hot water.
I cant go without money.
c) From t to th /&/:th th/ or/ should be sounded prominently.
Ex. At the store, them, through thick and thin
They sell sugar at the store.
d) From consonant to a vowel: The plosive is exploded blending with the vowel.
Ex. Stop it.
Please stop it!.
It is continuous with some continuants.
Ex. Pull out.

e) From vowel to vowel: A momentary glide consonant is likely to link them together.
Ex. do it
lying
see us know it
w
y
y
w
Do it faster!
Cant you see us?
f) The linking r transition: When a syllable ends with a vowel (followed by r) the /r/ sound
links them together.
Ex. Star of the show, moreover.

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