putting stress and focusing on important word intonation phrase. concerns the placement and nuclear tone within intonation phrase
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what is grammatical function of intonation
highlighting grammatical and syntactic structure of what is being said. example phrase boundaries and questions vs statements
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what is discourse function
conveys what is new and what is given information. conveys to the listener what type of response is required. the nuclear tone will be placed on words with higher information content.
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what is also discourse function
it has two aspects focusing the listeners attention of the most important part of what's being said and regulating conversational behaviour.
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what is accentual function
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putting stress and focusing on important word intonation phrase. concerns the placement and nuclear tone within intonation phrase
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