INTONATION

Intonation



Intonation

This article concentrates on the stretches or intonation contours formed by the nucleus and the tail. In spite of the fact that this stretch is talked about as it consisting of two parts, the British tradition views it as a holistic 'bit' of the contour, each such bit providing an instance of a nuclear lone. Examples of nuclear tones are the fall, the rise, the fall-rise, the rise-fall, and the level tone (Levis, 1999: 37). If there is no tail (and the stretch is only one syllable long), the nuclear tone will run its full course on that syllable: ...