PLEASE!CAN YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE PROMINENCE;TONE;SOCIAL MEANING OF TONE AND DOMINANCE|ACCORDING To DAVID BRAZIL
A few comments about Brazil….
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David Brazil (1925-1995) was the originator of Discourse Intonation.
His principal publications were:
Discourse Intonation and Language Teaching (1980) Longman. (With Malcolm Coulthard & Catherine Johns).
The Communicative Value of Intonation in English (1985/1997) University of Birmingham/Cambridge University Press
Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English (1994) Cambridge University Press
A Grammar of Speech (1995) Oxford University Press
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“…5.3 Prominences.
If you listen to a person speaking, and concentrate not on the meaning but on the intonation and stress-distribution, you find that what is said falls apart into chunks, characterized by either secondary followed by primary stress, or, in the minimal case, just primary stress. I call them neither primary nor secondary stress, but rather ‘Prominences’. ” …
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