Pitch patterns of English and Czech declarative and interrogative sentences
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brno Studies in English 29 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | pitch patterns; intonation; declarative and interrogative sentences; English; Czech |
| Description | The present paper is a study of the intonation of English and Czech declarative and interrogative sentences. It presents the results of a comparative analysis of the occurrence of different pitch patterns in two English and two Czech dialogues. The prosodic interpretation of the material is based on a simplified version of the framework of the British contour analysis. Czech texts display a higher percentage of rising tones than English texts, especially in wh-questions and in non-terminal intonation units of declarative sentences. |