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Re: I'll pick him up.
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Karen Chung
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Jun 05, 2009 19:03 PDT
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伊達 wrote:
| | Hi, Karen and dear all
Thank you for answering my question.
You wrote:
| | This is how I would say it; capital letters are used to indicate
stressed syllables; tonic stresses are marked with an *.
Daughter: *SURE. I'LL pick him *UP. (rising intonation)
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I'm glad to know that your version perfectly matches the pronunciation on the CD.
Is the tone on I'LL a fall? In other words, is the intonation of the sentence a complex one i.e. a fall + a rise?
And is the stress on I'LL idiomatic? It seems to me there is no legitimate reason for it to be stressed?
Similarly, is each B below properly described?
(1) A: Are you coming?
B: SURE, I'M COMing. (rising intonation)
(2) A: Is that Mary?
B: SURE, THAT'S MARy. (rising intonation)
(3) A: Do you know her?
B: SURE, I KNOW her.(rising intonation)
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My view: In all these cases, there is an implied *contrast* that
activates a contrastive stress of *confirmation*. The stress is between
what the first speaker "doubts, is unsure of, suspects may not be the
case" and the "confirmation" of the second speaker.
Karen
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