The functions and meanings of prosody should be described with reference to the utterance as the basic communicative unit. The prosody of an utterance (intonation) carries independent meanings of its own, regardless of the words and the grammatical structure of the utterance.
The prosody of the utterance is polysemantic. Due to its structural complexity it can express a number of different meanings of interrogation, non- finality, uncertainty, non—categoric attitude, surprise, etc. The prosody of the utterance performs a number of functions, the basic of which are constitutive, distinctive and identificatory.
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