Белорусский государственный

Interdental
– sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue projected between the teeth: /ɵ, 
ð/. 
International Phonetic Alphabet
– a set of symbols adopted by the International Phonetic 
Association as a universal system for the transcription of speech sounds. 
Intonation
– 1) pitch (or melody) variations used to convey meaning. It is normally 
distinguished from tone by the fact that tone is usually a property of individual words, while 
intonation patterns are more frequently properties of longer stretches of speech, such as a clause or 
a sentence. 2) a complex unity of speech melody, sentence stress, tempo, rhythm and voice timbre, 
which enables the speaker to express his thoughts, emotions and attitudes towards the contents of 
the utterance and the hearer. Acoustically, intonation is a complex combination of varying 
fundamental frequency, intensity and duration. See also 
prosody
.
Intonation group
– an actualized syntagm; the part of an utterance over which a particular 
intonation pattern extends. Structurally the intonation group has some obligatory formal 
characteristics. These are the nuclear stress, on the semantically most important word and the 
terminal tone (i.e. pitch variations on the nucleus and the tail if any). The boundaries between 
intonation groups are marked by tonal junctures and pauses. All these features shape the intonation 
group, delimit one intonation group from another and show its relative semantic importance. The 
intonation group is a meaningful unit. The most general meanings expressed by the intonation 
group are, for instance, those of completeness, finality versus incompleteness, non-finality. 
Intonation pattern
– pitch movements together with loudness and the tempo of speech 
extending over an intonation group. 
Intonation style
– a complex of interrelated intonational means which is used in a social 
situation and serves a definite aim of communication.