Questions
1. What is the traditional way of representing intonation?
2. How is voice-range defined? What does it depend on? How can the utterance be performed?
3. What is the system of tonic stress marks suggested by R.Kingdom?
4. What are the main approaches to the inventory of tonal types suggested by different scholars?
5. What is the structure of intonation pattern? Give the definition of “pre-head”, “head”, “nucleus”, “tail”.
6. What is the main function of speech melody?
7. What is the difference between a nuclear tone and terminal tone?
8. What kind of attitude may be expressed when : the low falling tone is used; the high-falling tone is used; the rising-falling tone is used; low-rising tone is used; high-rising tone is used; the falling-rising tone is used?
What communicative types of sentence are pronounced with the rising tone?