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6. Prosodic division is typically obligatory in expanded simple sentences with adverbial modifiers
of different kinds, complex sentences with object, relative or attributive clauses.
7. The subject of a sentence expressed by a personal pronoun is but seldom separated from the
predicate, a preposed attributive is usually closely linked to the noun.
8. Tone-sequences in English display relatively free combinability of nuclear tones.
9. The most significant feature of prosodic subordination is equality of the nuclear pitch intervals.
10. Subordinative intonation-groups most frequently stand in post-position to superordinate (major)
groups.
11. One of the specific features in prosodic co-ordination is dissimilarity of nuclear tones in both
intonation-groups.
12. The most typical case of postposed subordination is an afterthought. Depending on the speaker’s
attitude the afterthought takes a rising, a falling or a falling-rising nuclear tone of a low narrow
variety.
13. The pitch of the onset syllable in the initial phrase of a supraphrasal unity is noticeably lower
than in the following phrases.
14. The tempo of speech tends to be somewhat slower at the beginning and end of the supraphrasal
unity and faster in the middle.
15. Emphasis on the onset syllable of a falling tune enhances the energetic character of a statement,
command or exclamation.
16. When the onset syllable of a high rising tune is made emphatic a note of impatience is suggested
to an utterance.
17. Statements pronounced with an Emphatic Fall sound very categoric and decisive.
18. The Low Prehead is most commonly used before a high static tone and before kinetic tones
which begin on a higher pitch.
19. In tunes with the nuclear Emphatic Mid/Low Fall the High Irregular Prehead is used to express
extreme surprise.
20. A common means of expressiveness in informal conversation is the use of complex tones and
emphatic varieties of simple tones in the prenuclear part and the nucleus, the high prehead and
types of head such as the sliding and the Scandent heads for instance.
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