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Intonation Contours 2 and 2a and the Attitudes Conveyed by ThemIntonation Contour 2:(Low Pre-Head+) (Descending Head/High Head+) LOW RISE (+Tail) Intonation Contour 2a:(Low Pre-Head+) Low Level Head + LOW RISE (+Tail)
Utterances pronounced with Intonation Contour 2soundnon- categoric, non-final and also can convey soothing, genuinely interested, friendlyattitudes. Intonation Contour 2a renders the following attitudes and meanings: encouraging further conversation, casual, or calmly disapproving, warning, critical, menacing. Intonation contours 2 and 2a can be used in statements, interrogative and imperative sentences, exclamations. 1. When used in statements, IC 2 makes them sound non-categoric, soothing and reassuring or even patronizing (it is a tone frequently used by adults to very young children). It may sometimes give a hint of self-confidence and self-reliance. E.g. I There’s I’ll be IC 2 is a typical contour for non-final sense-groups very closely connected with the following sense-group. E.g. I’d no We IC 2a may encourage further conversation or may be guarded, reprovingly critical, even grumbling; resentful, bored. E.g. ( (You must a He 2. The most typical intonation contour for general questions in unemphatic speech is IC 2. The speaker sounds generally interested, warm, friendly and reassuring. E.g. Have you Will there be
IC 2a gives a disapproving, sceptical ring to a general question. E.g. Does it Are you
3. When pronounced with IC 2, special questions indicate that the speaker is sympathetically interested. E.g.
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