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Dialogue Strategies In English Lectures And Their Prosodic Realisation

Table 2:

Rhetorical Features and Prosodic Parameters Informational Dimension Interactional Dimension
Manner of delivery Speaking impressively Speaking naturally
Style Academic Elements of conversational style
Key High, medium Low, medium
Pitch ranges Mostly broad and medium, varied (7-25 semintones) Medium, narrow (5-16 semitones)
Nuclear tones High Fall, Fall-Rise, Rise-Fall-Rise, Low Rise in non-final intonation group Mid Level Tone, Low Fall, Fall-Rises, Mid Fall, Low Rise
Pre-nuclear patterns High Level Head, Falling Head, Stepping Head, Sliding Head Low Level Head, Mid Level Head, Falling Head
Rate of speech varies from medium to slow (185 – 250 msec) varies from fast to medium (130-220 msec)
Pauses syntactic pauses (250 - 1400 msec); the duration of emphatic pauses varies from 200 to 1600 msec. syntactic pauses (200-600 msec); emphatic pauses (250 - 800 msec); hesitation pauses (vocalised and non-vocalised) duration varies from 200 to 1600 msec
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