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@article{342916, author = {Chamonikolasová, Jana and Mosey, Bryan}, article_location = {Brno}, article_number = {1}, keywords = {comparative study; intonation; nucleus position; tone unit length; word-order; corpus}, language = {eng}, issn = {1211-1791}, journal = {Brno Studies in English 22}, title = {Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech}, volume = {22}, year = {1996} }
TY - JOUR ID - 342916 AU - Chamonikolasová, Jana - Mosey, Bryan PY - 1996 TI - Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech JF - Brno Studies in English 22 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 15-21 EP - 15-21 PB - MU SN - 12111791 KW - comparative study KW - intonation KW - nucleus position KW - tone unit length KW - word-order KW - corpus N2 - The article is a study of two prosodic features, tone unit length and nucleus position. It is based on an analysis of spoken texts selected from the London-Lund Corpus and the Corpus of Spoken Czech. The study supports the definition of tone units as the phonological realization of information chunks of a convenient size for processing by both speakers and listeners; the average length of tone units was found to be around 4.3 words in both the English and Czech texts. The examined texts, both English and Czech, contained a high percentage (almost 18%) of one-word tone units. The frequent occurrence of one-word tone units seems to be typical of unprepared conversation. The study suggests that both English and Czech speakers have a strong tendency to place the nucleus towards the end of a tone unit. The tendency seems to be stronger in Czech, where the average nucleus position was 1.4 words from the end of a tone unit, than in English, where the average was 1.6. ER -
CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana a Bryan MOSEY. Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech. \textit{Brno Studies in English 22}. Brno: MU, 1996, roč.~22, č.~1, s.~15-21. ISSN~1211-1791.
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