The Structure of the Tone Unit.
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| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The author describes the structure of the tone unit. The basic features of the tone unit are the presence of the nuclear tone and of one of the tone unit boundary markers, i.e. pitch movement, pause or lengthening of the last syllable before the pause, and anacrusis. Some British authors distinguish four parts of the tone unit: prehead, head, nucleus, and tail. These different parts are carriers of different degrees of prosodic prominence. The chapter is based primarily on works by Crystal, Cruttenden, and O'Connor and Arnold. |