UNIVERSAL AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEUS FUNCTIONING IN THE SYSTEMS OF NON-RELATED LANGUAGES
Keywords:
nucleus, nucleus position, informational structure of an utterance, means of expressing a communicative centre, comparative analyses, non-native speech.Abstract
The article deals with one of the most important parts in any intonation group – the
nucleus, and its role in expressing the informational sentence structure in English, Russian and Spanish. It reports on the means of signaling utterance focus in each of the languages as well as comparative analyses between them. The facts described provide foundation for further research of nucleus location and its choice in non-native English speech of Russian and Spanish-speaking learners of English.
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