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PLEASE!CAN YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE PROMINENCE;TONE;SOCIAL MEANING OF TONE AND DOMINANCE\|ACCORDING To DAVID BRAZIL IT'S URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!! A few comments about Brazil.... _____________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ PLEEEEAASEEE HELP ME!!!! ... (Asked by Paula ()
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. You might try some of the web sites below >>>> "...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'. " ... ... etc....(Answered by jim bo)

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PLEASE!CAN YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE PROMINENCE;TONE;SOCIAL MEANING OF TONE AND DOMINANCE\|ACCORDING To DAVID BRAZIL IT'S URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!! A few comments about Brazil.... _____________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ PLEEEEAASEEE HELP ME!!!! ... (Asked by Paula ()
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. You might try some of the web sites below >>>> "...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'. " ... ... etc....(Answered by jim bo)

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