Tendencies in intonation centre placement in utterances of Czech users of English and the possible effect on discourse coherence

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HEADLANDOVÁ KALISCHOVÁ Irena

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Exploring Cohesion and Coherence in English Discourse
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Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords intonation; intonation centre; message; word order; functional sentence perspective; spoken discourse
Description The article dealt with the outcomes of a research concerning the position of intonation centre in English utterances by Czech speakers. A comparison was drawn to a norm created by several native English speakers and certain tendencies caused by the influence of the mother tongue were identified.
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