Intonation of greetings and farewells

Intonation of conversational Formulae

• Conversational formulas include Greetings, Farewells, Apologies, expressions of Gratitude and phrases typically used in response to them.
• Conversational formilas play an important role in communication. They help to establish and to keep the contact between the speaker and the listener. According to their function in speech they can be regarded as formulas of politeness. According to the degree of politeness expressed it is possible to divide conversational formulas into 3 groups: normal (neutral), friendly (very polite, warm, lively), casual (perfunctory) and these three groups would be distinguished in oral speech by intonation.
• The common feature of all friendly formulas that they are pronounced with a Falling-Rising tone (divided or undivided).
• All casual formulas take the Low-Rising intonation. Such phrases are used between people on familiar terms who meet regularly.
• Normal Greetings, Expressions of Gratitude and Apologies are characterized by Falling nuclear tone.

Greetings & farewells

Speech Patterns	Intonation Patterns (typical)
How do you do?	(HH) + Fall
Hello.	HPr+LWR or HH+Fall
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Cheerio.	HPr+LWR
Bye-bye.
Goodbye.
Goodnight.
See you tomorrow.	(HH)+MWF, FR
See you later.
See you!

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