Table 1
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| Pre-head | Head | Nucleus | Tail |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. I'l 5. I'l 6. I 7. I | What shoud I ask what to ask what to | Do. Do do? do do do do | something. about it. it. |
The pre-nuclear part can take a variety of pitch patterns. Variation within the prenucleus does not usually affect the grammatical meaning of the utterance, though it often conveys meanings associated with attitude or phonetic styles. There are three common types of pre-nucleus: a descending type in which the pitch gradually descends (often in “steps”) to the nucleus; an ascending type in which the syllables form an ascending sequence and a level type when all the syllables stay more or less on the same level:
As the examples show, the different types of pre-nucleus do not affect the grammatical meaning of the sentence but they can convey something of the speaker's attitude.
Variations in pitch range (ìåëîä³éíèõ ä³àïàçîí³â) occur within the normal range of the human voice, i.e. within its upper and lower limits. Three pitch ranges are generally distinguished: normal, wide, narrow:
Pitch levels (ìåëîä³éí³ ð³âí³) may be high, medium and low.
The meaning of the intonation group is the combination of the “meaning” of the
terminal tone and the pre-nuclear part combined with the “meaning” of pitch range and
pitch level.
The tempoof speech as the third component of intonation implies the rate of the
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