QUESTIONS AND TASKS

1. How are the patterns of Group IV divided according to their usage?

2. Give examples with every sentence type pronounced with Patterns One, Two, Three. Say what attitudes are conveyed in them.

3. How is the meaning of a special question changed if it is pro­nounced with the Low Rise?

4. Suppose you want to sound guarded, critical and resentful. What pattern in Group IV would you choose for this purpose?

5. Suppose your fellow-student pronounced the Stepping Head

+ Low Rise instead of the Falling Head. Would the meaning of the whole intonation group be changed? How?

6. How is the emphasis intensified by the Scandent Head?

7. What attitudes are conveyed by the speaker by using Patterns

Six and Seven? Give your own examples.

GROUP V. HIGH (MEDIUM) RISE

 

 

Common emphatic usage	Patterns
One. (Low Pre-Nucleus +) High (Medium) Rise (+Tai)) Two. (Low High) Pre-Head + ) High (Medium) Level Head + High (Medium) Rise ( + Tail) Three. (Low Pre-Head +) Rising Head + High (Medium) Rise ( + Tail)
Occasional emphatic usage	Four. (Low Pre-Head +) Climbing Head + High (Medium) Rise ( + Tail)

COMMON EMPHATIC USAGE

Patterns One, Two, Three (No Head, Medium Level Head, High Level Head)sound echoing or repeating the speaker's mes­sage in statements or questions, calling for the repetition of tlje information already given, trying to elicit a repetition. Practically all the sentence types pronounced with the High (Medium) Rise patterns turn into echoing, repeated or straightforward questions sounding light, airy and rather casual.

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Verbal Context

eg He sails on the twenty-first. Take it home. I stopped smoking a long time ago.

Response

'What date does he sail?

(No Head). ■* Take it 'home. (H. L. H. A _»long time a'go?

(M. L. H.)

Pattern Three (Rising Head)has the unpleasant surprise or puzzling effect, often sounds disapproving, disbelieving and even threatening.

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Verbal Context eg I've eaten more than Jenny. The club is closed today. That plan won't work.

Response

You've .eaten 'more than

'who? Does it .ever 'open at 'all? You j.got a 'better sug'gestion?

OCCASIONAL EMPHATIC USAGE

Pattern Four (Climbing Head)has the same effect as the Ris­ing Head only the emphasis being intensified.