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5.
The Rising-Falling Tone-Pattern. Rising-falling tones. Modal meaning and usage of
Stepping/High Head + Rise-Fall Contour.
6.
Division of Utterances into Intonation-Groups. A combined tune.
Factors of prosodic
division. Location of boundaries between intonation-groups.
7.
Basic Types of Tone-Sequences in English. Combinability of nuclear tones in di-
sequences: underlying tendencies. Tonal reduplication.
8.
Prosodic Co-Ordination. Relevant features of co-ordinative tone-sequences. Typical
combinations of nuclear tones: High (Mid) Fall ǀ High (Mid) Fall, High (Mid) Fall ǀ Rise-
Fall. High Rise ǀ High Rise, Low Rise ǀ Low Rise, Fall-Rise ǀ Fall-Rise.
9.
Prosodic Subordination. Significant features of prosodic subordination. Preposed
subordination. Postposed subordination. Typical combinations of nuclear tones.
10.
Supraphrasal Unities. Prosodic features of supraphrasal unities: pitch, loudness, tempo.
The degree of semantic completeness of the utterances within a supraphrasal unity.
11.
Emphatic Tones. The purposes of using emphatic tones in speech. Structural characteristics
of emphatic tones.
12.
The Use of Emphatic Static Tones. Emphasis on the onset syllable of a high rising tune / a
falling tune / a low rising tune. The Broken Head. The use of several emphatic stresses in
the head.
13.
Emphasis on Kinetic Nuclear Tones. The
use of the Emphatic High Rise, the Emphatic
Low Rise, The Emphatic Fall.
14.
Irregular Preheads. The High Irregular Prehead: pronunciation, modal-emotional meaning
(in tunes with the nuclear Emphatic Mid/Low Fall, with the emphatic Low Rise, with the
emphatic High Rise). The Low Irregular Prehead: pronunciation and usage.
15.
Relative Prominence through Stress Reduction and Nuclear Tone-Shift. Reducing and
eliminating prenuclear stresses. Displacing the nuclear tone from its normal position. The
accentual function of intonation.
16.
Compound Tunes. Compound
tunes and the Ascending Head, the Sliding Head, the
Scandent Head. Modal meaning and usage of the most common types of compound tunes:
High Rise + High Rise, Low Rise + Fall, Fall + Fall-Rise, Fall + Fall, Fall-Rise + Fall.
17.
Prosodic Peculiarities of Formal and Informal Speech. Speech styles. The formal style
(formal-official and formal neutral) and its prosodic peculiarities.
The informal style
(informal-ordinary and informal-familiar) and its prosodic peculiarities.
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