Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions
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A prosodic unit begins at mid-level pitch and falls linearly to a low pitch right before the stressed component. The intonation of the stressed component depends on the syntactic role of the prosodic unit, but at the end of the sentence it usually (except e.g. for sarcasm) falls on the stressed syllable and remains low thereafter. | A prosodic unit begins at mid-level pitch and falls linearly to a low pitch right before the stressed component. The intonation of the stressed component depends on the syntactic role of the prosodic unit, but at the end of the sentence it usually (except e.g. for sarcasm) falls on the stressed syllable and remains low thereafter. | ||
The main prosodic units include fronted phrases in cleft constructions (including interrogative pronouns), auxiliary-subject phrases, verb-phrases (which contains the lexical verb), and infinitive clauses. | # The highest level of prosodic unit is the sentence itself, and | ||
# subclauses of the sentence | |||
# Within a clause, the main high-level prosodic units include fronted phrases in cleft constructions (including interrogative pronouns), auxiliary-subject phrases, verb-phrases (which contains the lexical verb), and infinitive clauses. | |||
# These prosodic units are themselves divided into smaller phrases. | |||
==== Sentence-level ==== | ==== Sentence-level ==== | ||