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Leal, Carmen Fernandez – 1995
This paper considers four levels of analysis in the observation of the prosodic features of pause in speech: phonetic; syntactic; semantic; and informative. On the phonetic level, a pause is related to length and intonation, and intonation in turn, being a result of the speaker's meaning, constitutes an expression of his/her emotional state. On…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics