Publication details
A comparative study of intonation centre placement in Czech and English
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Analysing Data > Describing Variation |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | intonation; intonation centre; message; word order; functional sentence perspective; spoken discourse |
| Description | The article dealt with the outcomes of a research concerning the position of intonation centre in English utterances by Czech speakers. A comparison was drawn to a norm created by several native English speakers and specific tendencies on the part of the non-native speakers were identified and described. |