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4.
In exclamations,
warm,
sympathetic,
encouraging, sometimes plaintive, puzzled,
surprised.
Greetings
and
leave-takings
sound
pleasant
and
friendly
when
pronounced this
way.
e.g. Good night, Peggy.
– Good `night, Mrs.
ˏ
Smith.
See you on Friday.
– `Right you
ˏ
are!
Two or More Falls Within One Sense - Group
Model :
Now what do you want?
I
don’t want `anything.
.
.
. .
Everyone’s gone home.
Not `every
ˏ
one
.
In sense-groups with the High Falling or Falling Rising nuclear tone there may be one
or more other words marked by a relatively High Falling tone. The function of such Falls
is to provide a greater degree of prominence for the words on which they occur. All other
words of the head are not stressed. The attitude expressed by the sentence is not changed
but the utterance sounds emphatic. In this case the head is called
Sliding.
Compare:
Fancy
'
anyone
'
wanting to do `that.
Fancy
anyone
wanting to do `that.
˙
…
Stress-and-tone mark in the text: syllables of the head uttered with falls: |
|
Exercises
1.
Read the dialogue “About the job” carefully. Write it down.
Mark the stresses and
tunes. Practise reading.
About the Job
H a r r y: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?
N o r a: Oh, Harry, surely he’s a bit young to decide on his career? He hasn’t even got to college yet.
H a r r y: Not at all, Nora. It’s wisest to decide in good time. Look at me for example. I really wanted
to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it’s silly to train for the wrong
job. After all, Robert will be going to college soon.
N o r a: (musing) Now if I were a man I’d be a farmer. To see the crops growing – that’s my idea of a
good life.
H a r r y: Well, you haven’t
answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?
N o r a: (wistfully) Are you sure you don’t to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?
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R o b e r t: No I’m sorry, Mum, but I don’t want to at all. I’d rather be a civil engineer. I want to build
roads and bridges.
H a r r y: Not ships? Isn’t it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?
R o b e r t: (crossly) Look here, is it my career we’re planning or yours?
H a r r y: (huffed) All right, all right, there is no need to lose your temper. But you’d better win that
scholarship first.
2.
Write down the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes. Make up tonograms.
(detached,
phlegmatic, reserved)
Shall I ask him about it again?
Can you translate a few sentences?
Will you tell her about it frankly?
(lively, interested)
Well, when can you spare the time?
What’s that got to do with you?
What makes you so sure?
(wondering, mildly puzzled)
Who’s he gone to see?
How often must he take it?
How long do you want to keep it?
(contradicting)
You want it back.
He won’t be able to help.
You’ve got enough money.
3.
Test reading.
The man on the bridge addressed the fisherman.
“Any luck?” he asked.
“Any luck!” was the answer. “Why, I got forty pike out of here yesterday.”
“Do you now who I am?”
“No,” said the fisherman.
“I’m the chief magistrate here and all this estate is mine.”
“And do you know who I am?” asked the fisherman quickly.
“No.”
“I’m the biggest liar in Virginia.”