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Contour 3. High/Stepping Head + Low Wide Rise
Modal Meaning and Usage
without a head – non-categoric; encouraging further
conversation;
In statements:
with a head – very lively, friendly and warm, soothing,
reassuring; in echoes – questioning with a note of surprise
and disbelief.
without a head, i.e. with the nuclear tone on the
interrogative word, – puzzled;
In special questions:
with a head – interested, warm, friendly; frequently used in
series of questions addressed to children.
In general questions:
without a head – casual, light (overlapping with the Mid
Wide Rise contour);
with a head – genuinely interested, warmer and friendlier
than questions with the Mid Wide Rise (the
result of
greater pitch contrast with the head).
In imperatives:
soothing, encouraging, calmly patronising (requests).
In exclamations:
airy, bright, friendly.
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