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Intonation Pattern V
(Low Pre-Head +) (Descending Head) Mid - Level (+ Tail)
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Model: I think I saw you yesterday afternoon.
>Yesterday | I →stayed ˎin all day.
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Stress – and – tone marks in the text: Mid – Level Tone: | > |.
The Mid – Level tone in the nucleus is pronounced on the medium level with any following tail syllables on the same level.
This intonation pattern is usually used in non-final intonation-groups expressing non-finality without any impression of expectancy.
Exercise
1. Read the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the non-final intonation groups of the reply:
Verbal context Drill
I’ll give him a piece of my mind. I hope you’ll do no such thing.
Fancy Max apologising! He apologised because he jolly well had to.
Invite him again in January. But in January, where will he be?
I’m not very interested. If that’s how you feel, why bother about it?
He promised it for July. July, well, that’ll be soon enough, do you think?
It’ll be difficult, you know. But do you consider it worth trying?
Won’t forty be enough? To be on the safe side, take one or two more.
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