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Dialogue Strategies In English Lectures And Their Prosodic Realisation

Table 1:

Dialogue Strategies Prosodic Devices
Rhetorical questions increased length of pauses, preceding or following the question, decrease of tempo, Falling terminal tones
Question-answer high key, decrease of tempo, increased loudness, increased length of pauses, Rising or Mid-level terminal tones
Chains of questions fast tempo, short or very short pauses between the questions, recurrent intonation patterns
Routine questions fast tempo, Low Key
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