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The ‘transferred negative’ and nuclear tone in English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

E. L. Tibbitts
E. L. Tibbitts
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(University of Leeds)
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It has been observed (Halliday 1967: 33–34, 54–55 ; cf. Crystal 1969: 273, ix, and Lee 1960: 58–59, with different tonality treatment) that the fall-rise nuclear tone in such sentences as

I ˈdidn't ˈcome because of the ˅food.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , June 1975 , pp. 29 - 33
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1975

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