12 - Intonation
paratones
from Part II - . . . and Discourse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Paratones
Spoken discourse exhibits the kinds of structure that written discourse is seen to have: sentences, paragraphs, sections and sub-sections, chapters and the sense of a whole ‘document’ or book. A paragraph is something written; the equivalent in speech has been termed a ‘paratone’ – a phonological paragraph. Paratones tend to be shorter than paragraphs and may often be more equivalent to extended sentences. Paratones also extend over sequences of speaker turns in conversations.
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- Transcribing the Sound of EnglishA Phonetics Workbook for Words and Discourse, pp. 182 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011