Aspects of English Intonation |
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alternative question ALVAR ELLEGÅRD analysis attitudes attitudinal function compound sentences compound tonics compound tunes context contrasts coordinate clauses demand question described distinction distinguish double tonics element English intonation examples expounded fall or rise fall-rise falling head falling-rising frequent function of intonation glide grammatical function Halliday Halliday's high fall high prehead high rise information unit intonation patterns intonational unit kinetic tones labels level tone linguistic low fall low rise minor information point moodless neutral F neutral tonality normal nuclear fall nuclear tone nucleus occur phonetic pitch movement postnuclear tone preceding prosodic prosodic unit realised recognised regarded relative clause rise-fall rising head rising tunes rising-falling Sally Schubiger's semantic Sentence function separate tone-group sequence speaker static tones stepping head stressed syllable structure subsystem tag question tail tion tone-group boundary tone-marks tone-pattern tone-unit transcription type of utterance unstressed usually vocative WH-interrogatives WH-questions yes/no-questions