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The rising and rise-falling tones are options which are usually exploited by dominant speakers or by speakers who want to claim or
assert dominance.

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The dominant speaker has a greater freedom when making tone choices.

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When defining "common ground", Brazil suggests that it is useful to think of the speaker seeing his world and the hearer's as
overlapping. Thus, as they speak, language users need to make decisions regarding whether to present what they say as shared or not.

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  TONE UNITS  may also be referred to as sense groups, intonation groups, tone groups and information units.  
PITCH MOVEMENT   is realised on the tonic, which is the last prominent syllable in a tone unit. The TONIC SYLLABLE   is the
minimum element of the tone unit.

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La respuesta correcta es:
 [TONE UNITS] may also be referred to as sense groups, intonation groups, tone groups and information units.  [PITCH MOVEMENT]  is
realised on the tonic, which is the last prominent syllable in a tone unit. The [TONIC SYLLABLE]  is the minimum element of the tone
unit.
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Drag and drop the words so as to complete the sentences about the different meanings of key:

1. HK conveys CONTRASTIVE  meaning 


2. MK conveys  ADDITIVE  meaning 
3. LK conveys  EQUATIVE  meaning 

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La respuesta correcta es:
Drag and drop the words so as to complete the sentences about the different meanings of key:
1. HK conveys [CONTRASTIVE] meaning 
2. MK conveys [ADDITIVE] meaning 
3. LK conveys [EQUATIVE] meaning 
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Complete the following sentences so that they are true. 

The first prominent syllable in a tone unit is the onset. 


Prominence is very much related to informativeness. 
The last prominent syllable in a tone unit is the tonic. 

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La respuesta correcta es: The first prominent syllable in a tone unit is the → onset., Prominence is very much related to →
informativeness., The last prominent syllable in a tone unit is the → tonic.
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Complete the sentences so as to form true statements. 

The sets of options associated with the tone unit are prom, tone, key and termination. 
The tone unit may contain  a tonic, a proclitic and an enclitic segment. 
Prominence is a linguistic choice available to the speaker independent of  grammatical structure and of word-accent. 

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La respuesta correcta es: The sets of options associated with the tone unit are → prom, tone, key and termination., The tone unit may
contain  → a tonic, a proclitic and an enclitic segment., Prominence is a linguistic choice available to the speaker independent of  →
grammatical structure and of word-accent.
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Intonation is concerned with marking or highlighting situationally informative items.

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The fall-rise tone is also known as referring tone (r).

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The fall-rise tone is usually used to mark the content of the tone unit as new information.

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Prominence is often defined as speech melody, consisting of different tones.

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A speaker may use a rising tone to claim dominance.

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We may use a falling tone on items such as "frankly", "honestly", or "to tell you the truth" to insinuate intimacy or solidarity.

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We should use a fall-rise tone in these non-informing items to insinuate intimacy or solidarity.
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The falling tone marks the matter as part of the common ground.

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The falling tone is usually used to present new information. 


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According to Brazil, the rise-fall tone expresses surprise or horror.

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Brazil claims that when a speaker uses a rise-fall, they are simultaneously adding information both to the common ground and to their
own store of knowledge. The information is marked as doubly new.
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The falling tone is also known as referring tone.

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Ultimately, the speaker chooses whether to present  information as shared or new.

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Apart from presenting information as shared or new, tone choices can also carry social meanings of convergence / divergence, or
solidarity / separateness.

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