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interrogative utterances). Often, intonation is the only marker of the speaker’s communicative
intent.
Compound Tunes
Expressiveness of speech
is often the result of using more than one kinetic tone in an intonation-
group, since kinetic tones are by their nature more expressive and colourful than static. Intonation-
groups having more than one kinetic tone are called
compound tunes (as opposed to simple tunes,
with one kinetic tone on the nuclear syllable).
Comparison with the pitch patterns shows that there is a clear resemblance
in form and function
between what has been defined as
a compound tune and some of
the types of heads, particularly,
between
the Ascending Head and
the Low Rise + High Fall compound tune,
the Sliding Head and
the Fall + Fall compound tune,
the Scandent Head and
the Rise + Rise compound tunes, while
other possible combinations of kinetic tones resemble the so-called
heterogeneous heads.
However, in a compound tune the departure from a static pitch pattern
of the prenuclear stress is
rather more vivid. It can be regarded, therefore, as an intensified variant of one of the above head
types.
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