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From: eel@cruzio.com
Subject: Russian syntactic phonology question
Reply-To: eel@cruzio.com
Organization: Cruzio Community Networking System, Santa Cruz, CA
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:22:20 GMT
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Keywords: intonation construction, syntagm
Sender: eel@cruzio.com (Eli Liang)
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I have a question about intonation constructions in spoken Russian.  Perhaps
one of the native speakers (or someone else) can help me.

In my copy of Bitekhtina's Russian textbook, there is a discussion of the
phonetics of syntagms (intonation units of sentences).

The quote is: "In contemporary spoken Russian one can distinguish seven
basic intonation constructions (IC): IC-1, IC-2, IC-3, IC-4, IC-5,
IC-6 and IC-7."  I am then refered to E A. Bryzgunova. Zvuki i intonatznya
russkoy rechi. M., 1983. for more info, which of course I can't find
here in the USA.

Bitekhtina only discusses the first five IC's (declarative, interrogative
w/ question word, interrogative w/o question word, interrogative w/ conjunction
"a", and evaluative).

My question is, what are IC-6 and IC-7, and how are they used?  (I've
only ever seen IC-1 thru IC-5 described elsewhere.)

Are IC-6 or IC-7 ever used in a syntagm?  (When/how?)
[i.e.: sentence with contrast, using IC-3 or IC-4 in the non-final syntagm:]
[        "Nikolay ne istorik, a fizik."                                    ]
[                      ^^^      ^^^                                        ]
[                    IC-3 or    IC-1                                       ]
[                     IC-4                                                 ]

Thanks.

Eli Liang
internet: eel@cruzio.com

