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Re: I'll pick him up.
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Karen Chung
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Jun 04, 2009 22:52 PDT
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Tami,
伊達 wrote:
| | Hello Steven and Jakob
Thank you very much for your detailed comments. They are very helpful.
There is another sentence (underlined below) again made up exclusively
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of repeated words:
This is how I would say it; capital letters are used to indicate
stressed syllables; tonic stresses are marked with an *.
| | Mother: DON'T forGET to DO your *HOMEwork (with rising intonation)
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| | Daughter: i've ALready *DONE it.
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| | Mother: THAT'S *GREAT. *OH, will you PICK *UP your little *BROther?
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(rising intonation) He's at Aunt *PEG'S house.
| | Daughter: *SURE. I'LL pick him *UP. (rising intonation)
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| | What will the 'normal' intonation pattern of the above be like?
Incidentally, the dialog is an excerpt from one of the English
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textbooks for junior high schools, authorized by the Ministry of
Education and Science here in Japan. I'd appreciate comments from you.
Thank you in advance.
Karen Chung
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