A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse - The Intonation of Increments

188 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse A sequence of tone units if bounded between two low terminations is a pitch sequence. ...

Key and Termination – Increments 189 extensive subchain. This resulted in the low termination inadvertently being selected in in ...

190 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse nominal or adverbial elements; projecting clauses; extensions and suspen- sions. The r ...

Key and Termination – Increments 191 His repetition of the tone unit the value of terrorism coupled with the presence of level t ...

192 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse Brazil (1997: 49–53) notes the communicative value of low key is to set up an existent ...

Key and Termination – Increments 193 Ten out of the eleven low keys in the corpus project the equivalence of tonic segments with ...

194 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse Contrary to Brazil’s claim that the low-key value of equivalence is always present it ...

Key and Termination – Increments 195 The increment fi nal low key/termination attached to the exclamation is neither self-eviden ...

196 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse (51) and get a re\PORT // FACE to FACE with the /POlice // and c V' d N phr P d N c th ...

Key and Termination – Increments 197 implications of fi nality and the putative low-termination value appears in the context of ...

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Chapter 8 Reviewing Looking Forward and Practical Applications 8.1 Aims and Findings of the Research This book set out to review ...

202 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse another increment which they felt necessary for the production of their target state, ...

Looking Forward and Practical Applications 203 social convergence and by signalling that the target state attained was in Prince ...

204 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse Two language features not present in Brazil’s original data, ellipsis and dysfl uency, ...

Looking Forward and Practical Applications 205 what to include and what to exclude. This book has demonstrated the power of desc ...

206 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse More evidence, which can only be gleamed from the examination of a larger corpus, is r ...

Looking Forward and Practical Applications 207 an attempt to describe speech in its own terms and not as a written text formed o ...