I. Intonation Pattern

Each speech group is characterized by a certain intonation pattern. Intonation pattern consists of 1 or more syllables. Intonation pattern containing a number of syllables consists of the following parts:

· the pre-head

· the head

· the nucleus

· the tail

The pre-head includes unstressed and half-stressed syllables preceding the first stressed syllable. The head includes the stressed and unstressed syllables beginning with the first stressed syllable up to the last stressed syllable. The last stressed syllable is called the nucleus. The unstressed and half-stressed syllables that follow the nucleus are called the tail,e.g.: I ‘wouldn’t ‘like to ‘go to school today.

§ I – pre-head

§ Wouldn’t like to go to – head

§ School – nucleus

§ Today - tail

The rises and falls that take place in the nucleus or start with it are called nuclear tones. The nucleus is the most important part of the intonation pattern as it defines the communicative centre. The communicative centre is associated with the most important word or words of the sense group or of the sentence.

In English notional words are generally stressed (nouns, verbs, adjectives). Form words and most pronouns are generally unstressed (articles, particles). But any part of speech may be stressed if it’s semantically important, e.g.: ‘What is he ‘going to ‘do? What is ‘he ‘going to ‘do?

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