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Head is more suitable for a businesslike talk. Again, utterances with the rising-falling nuclear tone
are more colourful than those with a simple falling tone, etc.
According to this principle intonation patterns can be subdivided into emotionally neutral
and emotionally coloured. However, this subdivision is but relative and is introduced, mainly, for
practical convenience.
In the above lists of the English basic intonation patterns less expressive, or neutral,
contours come first in each group of contours, whenever several types of head are combined with
one type of the nuclear tone. The present section of the book deals mainly with neutral patterns,
while the more expressive and emotionally coloured contours will be treated in one of the next
sections devoted to English expressive intonation.
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