Dialogic speech as a field of compound-complex sentence communicative types application

Presupposition Role in the Compound-Complex Sentence

The article analyzes the role of presupposition in the compound-complex sentence. The authors examine the types of presuppositions and minimal compound-complex sentence as a field of presuppositions action. The analysis of these types of sentences by the material of the English language shows that several kinds of presuppositions are realized in them – contact or distant, - developing in the re...

Speech as Articulatory Encoding of Communicative Functions

Speech conveys communicative meanings by encoding functional contrasts. The contrasts are realized through articulation, a biomechanical process with specific constraints. Phonology, phonetics or any other theories of speech therefore cannot be autonomous from either communicative functions or biophysical mechanisms. Successful speech modeling can be achieved only if communicative functions and...

Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions

The understanding of speech melody, i.e., pitch variations related to both tone and intonation, can be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that the melody conveys communicative meanings, and that it is produced by human articulators. Communicative meanings, as I will argue, are conveyed through a set of separate functions which are realized by an articulatory s...

Speech prosody as articulated communicative functions

Speech prosody, just like the segmental aspect of speech, conveys communicative meanings by encoding functional contrasts. The contrasts are realized through articulation, a biomechanical process with specific constraints. Prosodic phonology or any other theory of prosody therefore cannot be autonomous from either communicative functions or biophysical mechanisms. Successful modeling of speech ...

The Critical Communicative Methodology and the Dialogic Society