Intonational means of expressing the "new" and the "given" categories in English, Russian and Spanish
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Abstract
The article explores the intonation means of expressing the "given" and the "new" in English, Russian and Spanish. It represents the results of phonetic research proving the difference in the nucleus’s role when signaling the new information in three languages.
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