The paper deals with the means of prosodic foregrounding in public academic speeches by educated native speakers of British English. The unit under analysis is an extended (consisting of more than one phonetic syntagm) chunk of speech. The questions raised by the author include the following: what means are used in public academic speeches to bring out extended chunks of speech, how many of them are used, how exactly are they used and combined with each other?
prominence, extended chunk of speech, academic speaking, British English.
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