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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 and Bryan MOSEY. Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech. \textit{Brno Studies in English 22}. Brno: MU, 1996, vol.~22, No~1, p.~15-21. ISSN~1211-1791.
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