Evolving intonation patterns in the speech of Russian TV newsreaders

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.2-17.003

Demina Malvina A.,

Ph.D. of Philology, Assistant professor at the Department of English phonetics at Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages

Moscow State Linguistic University

e-mail: malvinademina@rambler.ru

This article examines modern intonation trends in the speech of newsreaders on Russian television.  Detailed analysis of prosodic usage in Russian news discourse shows the emergence of a specific phonetic style that owes much to the adoption of English-language news presentation and intonation patterns.

Keywords: news discourse; phonetic style; intonation; prosodic pattern; prosodic borrowing; melodic contour; terminal (nuclear) tone; prenuclear part of pitch contour (head/ scale).

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