The article presents the results of the comparative research into the prosodic structuring of Australian, Canadian and British interrogative utterances of different syntactical, stylistic and pragmatic types. The data obtained proved the national stability of their prosodic contrasts as well as the distinctions in the scope of interlinguistic variability within each speech act.
(КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2018) Яскевич, Виталий Валерьевич
The article deals with the prosodic peculiarities of teenage and adult speech. The findings of the research allowed us to establish a number of constant prosodic features, which are typical of both the age groups. At the same time we singled out certain specific traits of prosodic organization which reflect the age of the speakers.