Publication details
Tendencies in intonation centre placement in utterances of Czech users of English and the possible effect on discourse coherence
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Exploring Cohesion and Coherence in English Discourse |
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| 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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