Actual Division: Its Distinctive Features In Scientific Russian And English Speech
Table 2: The common features in highlighting the theme and rheme using prosodic methods in English and Russian
Intonation | Intonational emphasis marks the syntactic function of each sentence part. |
Logical stress | It is an absolute rheme indicator, which is characterized by a drop in tone. |
Emphasis | When the rheme is initial inverted and non-inverted, the entire sentence receives some emphasis, since the end of the sentence, the theme, forms the second intonation center. |