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Are the following statements True or False?
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| 3. Are the following statements True or False?
1. Intonation doesn’t convey the speaker’s attitude to the subject matter and to the speech situation, as well as his relations with the listener and his emotional state at the moment of communication. 2. The classification of English words according to their accentability as in most other languages is based on the following general principle: stress on function words and absence of stress on notional words. 3. From a functional point of view nuclear stress is the only obligatory stress in an intonation- group and signals the central point of information. 4. On the whole, English is similar to Russian/Belarusian in the general predominance of final position of the nucleus in an utterance, but a non-final (penultimate or mid) position is rather more common for these languages than for English. 5. Enclitics appear to be considerably faster in pronunciation than proclitics. 6. A pitch-change is a feature perceived more easily than a pitch-level. 7. Static tones are more significant to the utterance than kinetic tones. 8. The High Narrow Rise has a marked interrogative force bordering on surprise, incredulity, etc., and is typically heard in all kinds of interrogative repetitions. 9. The general meaning of a falling pitch-change can in full degree be applied to the High Wide Fall which is the most neutral (unmarked) variety. 10. Functionally the divided variant of the Fall-Rise is very similar to the undivided falling-rising tone: it also imparts an implicatory meaning to the utterance. 11. The head is the most variable part of the intonation group. 12. The Gradually Descending Stepping Head may have a monotonous effect, especially when the intonation-group contains more than three stressed syllables. This monotony can be avoided by making an upward break somewhere in the middle of the head, after which a downward movement of the pitch is resumed. 13. The Ascending Head is typically combined with the nuclear low falling and low rising tones. 14. Combined with the Low Rise in imperative utterances the Scandent Head has a reassuring, encouraging meaning and is often used in speaking to children. 15. Personal pronouns (he, she, you) always retain their strong form regardless of stress or utterance position. 16. On, off, in are always weak in an unstressed position. 17. In connected speech the omission of one of the stresses is more typical of double-stressed words with a second stress having a semantic function, e.g. weekend, unknown, well-known, etc., 33 whereas polysyllabic derivative words, like examination, conversation are more stable in their accentual pattern. 18. From the functional point of view the pitch-level plays an important role in marking the degree of semantic prominence attached by the speaker to this or that word or phrase in an utterance. жүктеу/скачать 0,6 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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