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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.
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