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2. Reseated General Questions.

Repeated questions are those that are asked by the speaker a second time.

There are two types of repeated questions

a) Questions asked by the speaker because he cannot make out the answer to

his first question. They take a High Narrow Rise or a Mid-Rise on the first word

A. Did you see him/yesterday?

(says something which A can't make out).

B. Did you see him yesterday?

b) Questions asked by the speaker a second time because the listener did not

hear the first question. They are characterized by the same tonetic pattern as the

basic questions but their range is usually wider and stresses are intensified. Thus

these questions sound louder. E.g.:

Did you see him yesterday? Did you' see him yesterday?

These questions may be characterized by a High Narrow Fall too. This tone

makes the question a little more insistent.

A. Did you /speak to him?

(does not hear him)

B. Did you speak, to him?

3. Insistent General Questions.

These are asked the: speaker wants to keep somebody to the point. They are

characterized by a Low Fall or a High Wide Fall. E.g.:

Counsel/ questioning a witness? Did yon \see the man?

4. Certainly General Questions.

These are asked when the speaker- puts forward his question as a suggestion or

a subject for discussion rather than as a request for an answer. They embody the

idea of some statement and are characterized by falling tones.

Shall we go there? ('It would be a good idea to go there).

5. Rhetorical General Questions.

These are asked, not in order to be answered, but merely for effect. These

questions are usually emotionally colored and are characterized by different falling

tones, often by widening the range, by a high level and intensified stresses. E.g.:

Oh' "Did I "say that"? (I didn't say that).

6. Echo General Questions.

These are cases when the hearer repeats some utterance that he has heard.

Different reactions may be expressed by those repetitions1.

a) The hearer thinks he has heard the original utterance; correctly, but wants

to confirm his impression. In this case he repeats the utterance without altering the

stress but using a High Narrow Rise:

A. Have you seen /Henry?

B. Have I seen Henry?

b) The hearer has heard most of the original utterance but is doubtful about

some word In this case he repeats the utterance will a High Narrow Rise placed

on the words which doubts about:

A. Did you go/there?

B. Did "I go there?

c) The hearer has heard the original utterance, but wants to show that he is

surprised or shocked by it. In this he repeats the utterance placing a High Wide

Rise other upon the word that originally carried the terminal tone (to show that the

whole utterance has shocked him) or upon some other word (to show that that

particular part of the utterance has shocked him). These utterances are often

1 Jones D. An Outline of English Phonetics. Cambridge, 1957.p 35. characterized by widening the range, by high level or intensified stresses:

A Have you seen Henry?

B. Have I seen Henry?

d) The hearer has heard the: original utterance, but wants to temporize before

giving an answer or is trying to collect his thoughts.

In this case he repeats the utterance with a Low Rise or a Low Fall. This

question is usually characterized by rather a low pitch:

A. 'Have you seen /Henry?

B. Have I 'seen /Henry?