A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse - The Intonation of Increments

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follows: the orthographic transcriptions were checked against the actual
readings to ensure that there was an accurate orthographic record of what
each individual reader had read. Then the individual recordings were lis-
tened to and all the prominent/salient syllables were identifi ed. Once this
process was complete the subset of prominent syllables, which are tonic,
was identifi ed and the tone units boundaries were marked. The next stage

–3 –2 –1 0 1 2

Bc

Dc

Emi

Jt

Rf

Tr

Readers

Standard Scores

Figure 5.3 Text 2 variation in extent of tone units

–3 –2 –1 0 1 2

Bc

Bs

Dc

Dmc

Emi

Gc

Jt

Mh

Rf

Sn

Tr

Readers

Standard Scores

Figure 5.4 Text 2 variation in increment length