QUESTIONS AND TASKS

1. By means of what sections of pitch-and-stress patterns can intonation groups and sentences be made to sound more em­phatic?


2. How can the High Pre-Head intensify the meaning of the into­nation group?

3. What is the emphatic variant of the Falling Head?

4. Describe the way emphasis is achieved by descending heads being broken by an accidental rise?

5. Why could the Sliding Head be called emphatic?

6. How could the attitude of the Sliding Head be still more inten­sified?

7. What is the emphatic variant of the Rising Head?