Quand les paroles s’envolent : réflexions sur les caractéristiques et la forme phonétique du High Rising Terminal en anglais contemporain

The emergence of the so-called High Rising Terminal (HRT) or ‘uptalk’ – that is the use of rising intonation at the end of declarative utterances – is a major contemporary prosodic phenomenon that has been reported in numerous varieties of English worldwide (see for example Lakoff 1975; Ching 1982;...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephan Wilhelm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2015-11-01
Series:Anglophonia
Subjects:
HRT
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/591