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adjectives adverbs afterthought anomalous finite Apologies asked clause combination Compound Tunes contains contrast conveyed D'you dear double-stressed emphasis emphatic tone Exclamations express falling element falling tone feeling following examples frequently give grammatically hearer High Level Head High Level Tone High Prehead IIILE impatience imperative indicate Insinuating Statements interrogative word intonation kinetic stress kinetic tone Level Prehead level stresses Lexical stress Low Level Head Low Level Tone Low Rising manager'll meaning nice normal voice range normally unstressed noun nuclear stress nuclear tone occur paragraph partially stressed Particular Questions Perfunctory pitch change possible preceded prepositions principal verb prominence Pronouns Reading Practice reporting phrase rising element rising tone sense-groups sentence stress sorry speaker straightforward statement stressed syllables stressed word suggestion Tag Question tail take a Tune tense There's tomorrow Tone II Head Tone IV tonetic stress-mark Tune III Tune IIID usually utterance Variant vocative wait