Prosody Park - Informal Assessment

If you work with individuals who have unusual or robotic speech, it might be an issue with prosody. This informal assessment will give you a chance to find out! The protocol for scoring is in a Google sheet, available at http://bit.ly/2ptoNjr This will automatically score and graph the results for you. Follow up with the additional Prosody Park lessons on stress, intonation, and phrasing.

Prosody Park 1 - Stress

If you work with individuals who have unusual or robotic speech, it might be an issue with prosody. In Part 1 of Prosody Park, we will learn about using volume and pitch for emphasis, called "stress". This is not intended for English learners to improve their accent, but to teach the pragmatics behind prosody

Prosody Park 2 - Intonation

If you work with individuals who have unusual or robotic sounding speech, it might be an issue with prosody. Part 2 of Prosody Park teaches the importance of intonation, or the patterns of rising and falling pitch that we use when we speak. This is not intended for English learners to improve their accent, but to teach the pragmatics behind prosody.

Prosody Park 3 - Phrasing

If you work with individuals who have unusual or robotic speech, it might be an issue with prosody. Part 3 of Prosody Park addresses the issue of phrasing, or pausing between phrases. This is not intended for English learners to improve their accent, but to teach the pragmatics behind prosody.