ellipsis (...) and italics may also signal certain intonation delimita
tions by means o f pitch changes, stress levels, pauses.
The above example He is a student may be pronounced with
different intonations (pitch variations) thanks to three final punc
tuation marks - end stops: period signals the falling tone; the
- 1 8 2 -
question mark indicates the rising tone and the exclamation mark
requires to use a special type of intonation expressed by all its
components. Probably, the relationship between the punctuation
marks and intonation is universal in all languages. Such examples
as He is a student in Russian (Он - студент) and Uzbek (U —
student) have relatively the same intonations depending on the
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