Unit 8 Phonetics
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The document discusses intonation and provides the following key points: 1. Intonation refers to pitch movements in speech that provide linguistic information. It serves grammatical, accentual, discourse, attitudinal, and sociolinguistic functions. 2. The basic unit of intonation is the word group, which is divided into a pre-head, head, and nucleus. The nucleus carries the main accent. 3. There are different nuclear tones including high fall, low fall, high rise, and fall-rise that convey meanings like neutral statements versus questions. 4. Intonation tunes involve pre-nuclear and nuclear pitch patterns that together contribute to meanings of
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