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Intonation Contour 1a: (Low Pre-head+) (Low Head*+) Low Fall (Low-Level Tail)
Thereis an important variant of Intonation Contour 1 with a low head or no head; if there is a pre-head it is also low; the tail is low-pitched.
* Pre-nuclear stressed syllables pronounced on the low pitch level constitute the Low Level Head or Low Head.
E. g. There’s nothing to
worry about.
How did you
manage to
do
that?
The Low Level Head usually occurs before the Low Fall or Low Rise.
The speaker pronouncing phrases with Intonation Contour 1a sounds cool, calm,reserved, detached, unemotional, uninterested, sometimes unsympathetic and disapproving, grim and even hostile.
1. Statements: Intonation Contour 1a makes a statement sound complete, definite and categoric, as in the case of Intonation Contour 1. A statement pronounced with this pattern may sound unfriendly, grim, surly.
E.g. I want to
talk to you.
I must go
now.
2. General Questions: Intonation Contour 1a makes a general question sound detached, phlegmatic, uninterested, sometimes sceptical and hostile.
E.g. A: We shall have to
take a
taxi.
B: But can we a
fford it?
3. Special questions: Intonation Contour 1a makes a special question sound reserved, cool, uninterested, flat, unfriendly and unsympathetic, quite often even hostile.
E.g. A: Can you
lend me some
money?
B: What do you
want it
for?
4. Commands: Intonation Contour 1a makes a command sound calm, unemotional, often cold.
E.g. Don’t
do it a
gain.
Try some of the
other keys on the
bunch.
5. Exclamations: Intonation Contour 1a makes an exclamation sound calm, reserved, unsurprised.
E.g. A: It was very
kind of you.
B: Not in the
least.
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