Publication details
Intonation in discourse: Why do Czech speakers of English not always use it to enhance the meaning?
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity, Řada anglistická: Brno Studies in English 36 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | intonation - intonation centre - functional sentence perspective - theme - rheme - spoken discourse - context |
| Description | The contribution covers the results of a research project concerning the position of intonation centre in English utterances by Czech speakers. It focuses on the main differences between the way English native speakers read out several scripted dialogues, and the versions of a large sample of Czech users of English. The most outstanding features were identified and analyzed with respect to both prosody and functional sentence perspective. |
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