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73-521: Officially, they are considered Swedish dialects due to being spoken in a region where Swedish is an official language today. The Swedish government nevertheless acknowledges that the dialects have developed independently from Old Norse, and not from Swedish itself. In everyday speech, many also refer to Dalarna regional variants of Standard Swedish as part of the Dalecarlian dialect. Linguistically speaking, however, they are more accurately described as

146-454: A head containing stressed syllables preceding the nucleus, and a tail consisting of syllables following the nucleus within the tone unit. Unstressed syllables preceding the head (if present) or nucleus (if there is no head) constitute a pre-head . This approach was further developed by Halliday and by O'Connor and Arnold, though with considerable variation in terminology. This "Standard British" treatment of intonation in its present-day form

219-510: A 12th-century building tradition, also applied in halls and ecclesiastical buildings. In the 15th century several thousands of these huge barns were to be found in Western Europe. In the course of time, its construction method was adopted by normal farms and it gradually spread to simpler buildings and other rural areas. As a rule, the aisled barn had large entrance doors and a passage corridor for loaded wagons. The storage floors between

292-525: A covered workplace, and for activities such as threshing . The word barn comes from the Old English bere , for barley (or grain in general), and aern , for a storage place—thus, a storehouse for barley. The word bere-ern , also spelled bern and bearn , is attested to at least sixty times in homilies and other Old English prose . The related words bere-tun and bere-flor both meant threshing floor. Bere-tun also meant granary ;

365-538: A declarative sentence. In informal speech, the question word is sometimes put at the end of the sentence. In this case, the question ends at a high pitch, often with a slight rise on the high final syllable. The question may also start at a slightly higher pitch: Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language so pitch contours within a word distinguish the word from other words with the same vowels and consonants. Nevertheless, Mandarin also has intonation patterns that indicate

438-431: A lexically and morphologically "national" Swedish with characteristic Dalarna intonation and prosody . In linguistics , one distinguishes between regionally different national languages and genuine dialects, and Dalecarlian as a term is used exclusively for dialects in the latter sense. Varieties of Dalecarlian are generally classified geographically as follows: Floda and Mockfjärd dialects are sometimes considered

511-598: A more independent position, especially in the upper parishes. They may show similarities with neighbouring Norwegian dialects . There is a quite large difference between Gagnef and the Stora Tuna dialect, which belongs to the Dalecarlian Bergslagen dialects , a relatively uniform and fairly normal Swedish dialect complex that covers the entire southern Dalarna ( Stora Kopparberg , Hedemora and Västerbergslagen ). The most unique within this complex are

584-476: A pitch scale from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest): Thus, questions are begun with a higher pitch than are declarative sentences; pitch rises and then falls in all sentences; and in yes–no questions and unmarked questions pitch rises at the end of the sentence, while for declarative sentences and A-not-A questions the sentence ends at very low pitch. Because Mandarin distinguishes words on the basis of within-syllable tones, these tones create fluctuations of pitch around

657-400: A question. Tonal languages such as Chinese and Hausa use intonation in addition to using pitch for distinguishing words. Many writers have attempted to produce a list of distinct functions of intonation. Perhaps the longest was that of W.R. Lee, who proposed ten. J.C. Wells and E. Couper-Kuhlen both put forward six functions. Wells's list is given below; the examples are not his: It

730-550: A real barn by first generation colonists from the Netherlands and Germany. In the Yorkshire Dales , England, barns, known locally as cowhouses were built from double stone walls with truffs or throughstones acting as wall ties. In the U.S., older barns were built from timbers hewn from trees on the farm and built as a log crib barn or timber frame , although stone barns were sometimes built in areas where stone

803-656: A result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn. In the British Isles , the term barn is restricted mainly to storage structures for unthreshed cereals and fodder , the terms byre or shippon being applied to cow shelters, whereas horses are kept in buildings known as stables . In mainland Europe, however, barns were often part of integrated structures known as byre-dwellings (or housebarns in US literature). In addition, barns may be used for equipment storage, as

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876-463: A rising intonation, French has neither stress nor distinctive intonation on a given syllable. Instead, on the final syllable of every "rhythm group" except the last one in a sentence, there is placed a rising pitch. For example (as before the pitch change arrows ↘ and ↗ apply to the syllable immediately following the arrow): Adjectives are in the same rhythm group as their noun. Each item in a list forms its own rhythm group: Side comments inserted into

949-585: A separate group, but are typically listed as subdialects. Dalecarlian proper (especially in Älvdalen, Mora and Orsa, to some extent also in Ore, Rättvik and Leksand), as well as western Dalecarlian varieties are markedly different from Swedish, and are considered to be distinct language varieties by linguists. Elfdalian is the one of the Dalecarlian languages that best preserved their older features. It attracted interest from researchers early on because of its major divergences from others Swedish dialects. In many ways, it

1022-441: A syllable, or separated with a space when they have a broader scope: Here the rising pitch on street indicates that the question hinges on that word, on where he found it, not whether he found it. Here, as is common with wh- questions, there is a rising intonation on the question word, and a falling intonation at the end of the question. In many descriptions of English, the following intonation patterns are distinguished: It

1095-429: A treated wood frame (old telephone or power poles). By the 1960s it was found that cattle receive sufficient shelter from trees or wind fences (usually wooden slabs 20% open). In older style North American barns, the upper area was used to store hay and sometimes grain. This is called the mow (rhymes with cow) or the hayloft . A large door at the top of the ends of the barn could be opened up so that hay could be put in

1168-529: A typical description, Tune 1 is falling, with final fall, while Tune 2 has a final rise. Phoneticians such as H. E. Palmer broke up the intonation of such units into smaller components, the most important of which was the nucleus , which corresponds to the main accented syllable of the intonation unit, usually in the last lexical word of the intonation unit. Each nucleus carries one of a small number of nuclear tones, usually including fall, rise, fall-rise, rise-fall, and possibly others. The nucleus may be preceded by

1241-400: A visual inspection of the building itself, noting (for example) reused timbers, former floors, partitions, doors and windows. The arrangement of the buildings within the farmstead can also yield valuable information on the historical farm usage and landscape value. Linear farmsteads were typical of small farms, where there was an advantage to having cattle and fodder within one building, due to

1314-650: Is English ice, Dalecarlian knåyta, Swedish knyta, English tie, Dalecarlian aute, Swedish ute, English out. v has the Old Norse pronunciation w (like w in English), l is usually omitted in front of g, k, p, v, for example, Dalecarlian kåv, Swedish kalf, English calf, Dalecarlian fok and such Swedish folk, English people. h is omitted, for example, Dalecarlian and, Swedish and English hand (in the Älvdals-, Orsa- and Mora dialects, as well as in Rättvik and parts of Leksand). In

1387-543: Is also common to trace the pitch of a phrase with a line above the phrase, adjacent to the phrase, or even through (overstriking) the phrase. Such usage is not supported by Unicode as of 2015, but the symbols have been submitted. The following example requires an SIL font such as Gentium Plus , either as the default browser font or as the user-defined font for IPA text, for which see Template:IPA#Usage . All vocal languages use pitch pragmatically in intonation—for instance for emphasis, to convey surprise or irony , or to pose

1460-424: Is based on the classification of two different levels of intonation (horizontal level and vertical level). The first experiment (at the horizontal level) is conducted to investigate three utterance types: declarative, imperative, and interrogative. In his second experiment, the investigation of sentences is conducted to view intonation but in vertical sense. 'Vertical' here means a comparative analysis of intonations of

1533-435: Is explained in detail by Wells and in a simplified version by Roach. Halliday saw the functions of intonation as depending on choices in three main variables: Tonality (division of speech into intonation units), Tonicity (the placement of the tonic syllable or nucleus) and Tone (choice of nuclear tone); these terms (sometimes referred to as "the three T's") have been used more recently. Research by Crystal emphasized

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1606-649: Is interpreted as an alternative question when uttered with a rising contour on "Spanish" and a falling contour on "French". Although intonation is primarily a matter of pitch variation, its effects almost always work hand-in-hand with other prosodic features. Intonation is distinct from tone , the phenomenon where pitch is used to distinguish words (as in Mandarin ) or to mark grammatical features (as in Kinyarwanda ). Most transcription conventions have been devised for describing one particular accent or language, and

1679-432: Is it that ...") or est-ce qui , or by inversion of the subject-verb order (as in "where goes he?"). The sentence starts at a relatively high pitch which falls away rapidly after the question word, or its first syllable in case of a polysyllabic question word. There may be a small increase in pitch on the final syllable of the question. For example: In both cases, the question both begins and ends at higher pitches than does

1752-508: Is not known whether such a list would apply to other languages without alteration. The description of English intonation has developed along different lines in the US and in Britain. British descriptions of English intonation can be traced back to the 16th century. Early in the 20th century the dominant approach in the description of English and French intonation was based on a small number of basic "tunes" associated with intonation units: in

1825-441: Is prominently stressed. But for final rising pitch on yes–no questions, the rise always occurs as an upward step to the last stressed syllable, and the high (3) pitch is retained through the rest of the sentence. A more recent approach to the analysis of intonation grew out of the research of Janet Pierrehumbert and developed into the system most widely known by the name of ToBI (short for "Tones and Break Indices"). The approach

1898-404: Is sometimes referred to as autosegmental . The most important points of this system are the following: A simplified example of a ToBI transcription is given below. In this example, two phrases "we looked at the sky" and "and saw the clouds" are combined into one larger intonational phrase; there is a rise on "sky" and a fall on "clouds": Because of its simplicity compared with previous analyses,

1971-737: Is that ferric oxide acts a preservative and so painting a barn with it would help to protect the structure. The custom of painting barns in red with white trim is widely spread in Scandinavia . Especially in Sweden the Falu red with white trims is the traditional colouring of most wooden buildings. With the popularity of tractors following World War II many barns were taken down or replaced with modern Quonset huts made of plywood or galvanized steel. Beef ranches and dairies began building smaller loftless barns often of Quonset huts or of steel walls on

2044-473: Is the Est-ce que ... ("Is it that ...") construction, in which the spoken question can end in either a rising or a falling pitch: The most formal form for a yes/no question, which is also found in both spoken and written French, inverts the order of the subject and verb. There too, the spoken question can end in either a rising or a falling pitch: Sometimes yes/no questions begin with a topic phrase, specifying

2117-453: Is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse . For example, the English question "Does Maria speak Spanish or French?" is interpreted as a yes-or-no question when it is uttered with a single rising intonation contour, but

2190-574: Is very archaic and reminiscent of Old Norse, though it has in other ways distinguished itself from the Norse branch and developed special features that are seldom seen in other dialects. Characteristic of the dialect group are its plentiful linguistic differences even between bordering varieties, often changing from village to village, or even within a single village. For other Swedish speakers, Dalecarlian varieties are virtually incomprehensible without dedicated language lessons. However, this does not apply to

2263-695: The Frisian farmhouse or Gulf house and the Black Forest house . Not all, however, evolved from the medieval barn. Other types descended from the prehistoric longhouse or other building traditions. One of the latter was the Low German (hall) house , in which the harvest was stored in the attic. In many cases, the New World colonial barn evolved from the Low German house, which was transformed to

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2336-493: The -t suffix that is still present in Swedish bitit . As with other Upper Swedish dialects, the Dalecarlian dialects often pronounce the sound /i/ in suffixes where Standard Swedish has /e/. An example of this would be Dalecarlian funnin ("found") and Swedish funnen , as well as Dalecarlian muli ("cloudy") and Swedish mulet , Dalecarlian härvil ("yarn winder") and Swedish härvel . They also retain /g/ within

2409-512: The 1880s. Many barns had owl holes to allow for access by barn owls, encouraged to aid vermin control. The stable is typically the second-oldest building type on the farm. They were well built and placed near the house due to the value that the horses had as draught animals Modern granaries were built from the 18th century. Complete granary interiors, with plastered walls and wooden partitioning to grain bins, are very rare. Longhouses are an ancient building where people and animals used

2482-461: The 1940s to the 1990s was based on the idea of pitch phonemes, or tonemes . In the work of Trager and Smith there are four contrastive levels of pitch: low (1), middle (2), high (3), and very high (4). (The important work of Kenneth Pike on the same subject had the four pitch levels labelled in the opposite way, with (1) being high and (4) being low). In its final form, the Trager and Smith system

2555-523: The Dalecarlian dialects have retroflex consonants , which are most commonly allophones of consonants with a preceding supradental /r/ or /l/. For example, rs often becomes ss (compare Dalecarlian koss , "cross" and Swedish kors ), while the cluster rn becomes r in southern Dalarna, up to and including Rättvik, Leksand and Västerdalarna (compare Dalecarlian bar to Swedish barn , English bairn , or Dalecarlian björ , "bear" to Swedish björn ). In Dalecarlian proper, north of Gagnef,

2628-527: The INTSINT system but preferred to use their own system. Those with congenital amusia show impaired ability to discriminate, identify and imitate the intonation of the final words in sentences. barn#Swedish A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America , a barn refers to structures that house livestock , including cattle and horses , as well as equipment and fodder , and often grain. As

2701-592: The Jennings Barn claimed his design used less lumber, less work, less time, and less cost to build and were durable and provided more room for hay storage. Mechanization on the farm, better transportation infrastructure, and new technology like a hay fork mounted on a track contributed to a need for larger, more open barns, sawmills using steam power could produce smaller pieces of lumber affordably, and machine cut nails were much less expensive than hand-made (wrought) nails. Concrete block began to be used for barns in

2774-457: The Norwegian u; ä and e are well separated; the low-pitched vocals often have a sound of ä. Among the most interesting features of the dialects in Älvdalen, Mora and Orsa is that they still largely retain the nasal vocal sounds that were previously found in all Nordic dialects. Furthermore, it is noticed that the long i, y, u diphthongs, usually to ai, åy, au, for example Dalecarlian ais, Swedish

2847-454: The Rättvik and Leksand dialects as much. They are more easily understood and can be considered to form a transitional stage between the Dalecarlian languages and a dialect of Swedish with Dalecarlian remnants. Such transitional varieties also include the Ål, Bjursås and Gagnef dialects. The Gagnef dialect is closer to western Dalecarlian varieties, which to some extent can also be regarded as transitional dialects, but which in many respects take on

2920-526: The ToBI system has been very influential and has been adapted for describing several other languages. French intonation differs substantially from that of English. There are four primary patterns. The most distinctive feature of French intonation is the continuation pattern. While many languages, such as English and Spanish , place stress on a particular syllable of each word, and while many speakers of languages such as English may accompany this stress with

2993-488: The area. Building methods include earth walling and thatching . Buildings in stone and brick, roofed with tile or slate, increasingly replaced buildings in clay, timber and thatch from the later 18th century. Metal roofs started to be used from the 1850s. The arrival of canals and railways brought about transportation of building materials over greater distances. Clues determining their age and historical use can be found from old maps, sale documents, estate plans, and from

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3066-515: The cellar or on the main level depending in the type of barn. Other common areas, or features, of an American barn include: The physics term " barn ", which is a subatomic unit of area, 10 m , came from experiments with uranium nuclei during World War II, wherein they were described colloquially as "big as a barn", with the measurement officially adopted to maintain security around nuclear weapons research. Barns have been classified by their function , structure, location, or other features. Sometimes

3139-475: The central posts or in the aisles were known as bays or mows (from Middle French moye ). The main types were large barns with sideway passages, compact barns with a central entrance and smaller barns with a transverse passage. The latter also spread to Eastern Europe. Whenever stone walls were applied, the aisled timber frame often gave way to single-naved buildings. A special type were byre-dwellings , which included living quarters, byres and stables, such as

3212-469: The colder climate. Dispersed clusters of unplanned groups were more widespread. Loose courtyard plans built around a yard were associated with bigger farms, whereas carefully laid out courtyard plans designed to minimize waste and labour were built in the latter part of the 18th century. The barns are typically the oldest and biggest buildings to be found on the farm. Many barns were converted into cow houses and fodder processing and storage buildings after

3285-618: The consonant clusters nn , rt and rd are often preserved without assimilation. The /l/ sound is not usually supradental after /i/ and /e/ except in Dalecarlian proper, where /l/ has developed in its own direction and where it can even appear as partially supradental at the beginning of words, as in, e.g. låta . Dalecarlian has lost the -n and -t in unstressed suffixes. For example, the Dalecarlian definitive form sola or sole ("the sun") corresponds to Swedish solen , and Dalecarlian gata ("the street") to Swedish gatan . Similarly, Dalecarlian supine form biti ("bitten") has lost

3358-451: The consonant clusters rg and lg , whereas Swedish has shifted to /j/ (Dalecarlian /varg/, Swedish /varj/, "wolf"). Dalecarlian also keeps long vowels in front of m in many words where Swedish does not, such as tîma (/ti:ma/, Swedish timme /tim:e/, "hour"), tôm (/tu:m/, Swedish tom /tum/, "empty"), and /j/ after /k/ and /g/ in words such as äntja (Swedish änka , "widow") and bryddja (Swedish brygga , "bridge"). As in

3431-556: The dialect of the speaker. Intonation in Punjabi has always been an area of discussion and experimentation. There are different studies [Gill and Gleason (1969), Malik (1995), Kalra (1982), Bhatia (1993), Joshi (1972 & 1989)] that explain intonation in Punjabi, according to their respective theories and models. Chander Shekhar Singh carried forward a description of the experimental phonetics and phonology of Punjabi intonation based on sentences read in isolation. His research design

3504-466: The dialects of Svärdsjö and western Bergslagen, which are approaching Hälsingemål and Western Dalecarlian proper, respectively (via Grangärde and Floda ). Dalecarlian Bergslagen dialects are also spoken in the northern part of Västmanland . The Dalecarlian Bergslagen dialects are quite closely connected with the neighbouring Svealand Swedish , perhaps most with the dialects of eastern Västmanland. As with most dialects in northern and central Sweden,

3577-582: The early 20th century in the U.S. Modern barns are more typically steel buildings. From about 1900 to 1940, many large dairy barns were built in northern USA. These commonly have gambrel or hip roofs to maximize the size of the hay loft above the dairy roof, and have become associated in the popular image of a dairy farm . The barns that were common to the wheatbelt held large numbers of pulling horses such as Clydesdales or Percherons . These large wooden barns, especially when filled with hay , could make spectacular fires that were usually total losses for

3650-477: The exception of Dalecarlian proper, is the use of open and final a , which is used in a completely different way than in Standard Swedish. The open can occur as far and the closed as short, for example hara hare with open a in first, end in second syllable, katt, bakka, vagn with end, skabb, kalv with open a; open å sound (o) is often replaced by a sound between å and ö; The u sound has a sound similar to

3723-489: The farmers. With the advent of balers it became possible to store hay and straw outdoors in stacks surrounded by a plowed fireguard. Many barns in the northern United States are painted barn red with a white trim. One possible reason for this is that ferric oxide , which is used to create red paint, was the cheapest and most readily available chemical for farmers in New England and nearby areas. Another possible reason

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3796-520: The focus of the utterance. Then, the initial topic phrase follows the intonation pattern of a declarative sentence, and the rest of the question follows the usual yes/no question pattern: Information questions begin with a question word such as qui, pourquoi, combien, etc., referred to in linguistics as interrogatives . The question word may be followed in French by est-ce que (as in English "(where)

3869-414: The importance of making generalizations about intonation based on authentic, unscripted speech, and the roles played by prosodic features such as tempo, pitch range, loudness and rhythmicality in communicative functions traditionally attributed to intonation alone. The transcription of intonation in such approaches is normally incorporated into the line of text. A typical example would be: In this example,

3942-460: The intonation of nine urban accents of British English in five different speaking styles has resulted in the IViE Corpus and a purpose-built transcription system. The corpus and notation system can be downloaded from the project's website. Following on this work is a paper explaining that the dialects of British and Irish English vary substantially. A project to bring together descriptions of

4015-513: The intonation of twenty different languages, ideally using a unified descriptive framework ( INTSINT ), resulted in a book published in 1998 by D. Hirst and A. Di Cristo. The languages described are American English, British English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Western Arabic (Moroccan), Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and Beijing Chinese. A number of contributing authors did not use

4088-690: The intonation systems of different languages, the difficulty being compounded by the lack of an agreed descriptive framework. Falling intonation is said to be used at the end of questions in some languages, including Hawaiian , Fijian , and Samoan and in Greenlandic . It is also used in Hawaiian Creole English , presumably derived from Hawaiian. Rises are common on statements in urban Belfast ; falls on most questions have been said to be typical of urban Leeds speech. An ESRC -funded project (E. Grabe, B. Post and F. Nolan) to study

4161-616: The literal translation of bere-tun is "grain enclosure". While the only literary attestation of bere-hus (also granary) comes from the Dialogi of Gregory the Great , there are four known mentions of bere-tun and two of bere-flor . A Thesaurus of Old English lists bere-ærn and melu-hudern ("meal-store house") as synonyms for barn. The modern barn largely developed from the three aisled medieval barn, commonly known as tithe barn or monastic barn. This, in turn, originated in

4234-406: The loft. The hay was hoisted into the barn by a system containing pulleys and a trolley that ran along a track attached to the top ridge of the barn. Trap doors in the floor allowed animal feed to be dropped into the mangers for the animals. In New England it is common to find barns attached to the main farmhouse ( connected farm architecture ), allowing for chores to be done while sheltering

4307-473: The middle of a sentence form their own rhythm group: As can be seen in the example sentences above, a sharp fall in pitch is placed on the last syllable of a declarative statement. The preceding syllables of the final rhythm group are at a relatively high pitch. Most commonly in informal speech, a yes/no question is indicated by a sharply rising pitch alone, without any change or rearrangement of words. For example A form found in both spoken and written French

4380-478: The nature of the sentence as a whole. There are four basic sentence types having distinctive intonation: declarative sentences, unmarked interrogative questions, yes–no questions marked as such with the sentence-final particle ma , and A-not-A questions of the form "He go not go" (meaning "Does he go or not?"). In the Beijing dialect , they are intonationally distinguished for the average speaker as follows, using

4453-453: The northern Svealand and some Norrland dialects , /g/ and /k/ have been softened to /ɕ/ or /j/ even in medial positions of certain words, such as sättjin or sättjen (Swedish säcken , "sack, bag"), botja or botje (Swedish boken , "the book") and nyttjil (Swedish nyckel , "key"). These traits characterise all Dalecarlian dialects. Characteristic for the phonology of Lower and Upper Dalarna dialects especially, with

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4526-463: The relative status of participants in a conversation (e.g. teacher-pupil, or doctor-patient) and helping to regulate conversational turn-taking . The description of intonation in this approach owes much to Halliday. Intonation is analysed purely in terms of pitch movements and "key" and makes little reference to the other prosodic features usually thought to play a part in conversational interaction. The dominant framework used for American English from

4599-416: The same building falls into multiple categories. Old farm buildings of the countryside contribute to the landscape, and help define the history of the location, i.e. how farming took place in the past, and how the area has been settled throughout the ages. They also can show the agricultural methods, building materials, and skills that were used. Most were built with materials reflecting the local geology of

4672-981: The same entrance. These can still be seen, for example, in North Germany, where the Low Saxon house occurs. Few interiors of the 19th century cow houses have survived unaltered due to dairy-hygiene regulations in many countries. Old farm buildings may show the following signs of deterioration: rotting in timber-framed constructions due to damp, cracks in the masonry from movement of the walls, e.g. ground movement, roofing problems (e.g. outward thrust of it, deterioration of purlins and gable ends), foundation problems, penetration of tree roots; lime mortar being washed away due to inadequate weather-protection. Walls made of cob , earth mortars or walls with rubble cores are all highly vulnerable to water penetration, and replacement or covering of breathable materials with cement or damp-proofing materials may trap moisture within

4745-665: The same way, many words have gained an initial /h/, such as häven , hälsklig or hägde . These features are shared with the older Uppland dialects. A pair of Nordic diphthongs is still present in the western dialects of Lima and Transtrand . The diphthong [au], which shifted to [œ] in Swedish, is retained in these dialects as ôu , for example dôu (Swedish död , "death"). The old Swedish diphthongs ei and öy (which in Swedish became e and ö respectively) are pronounced as äi (for example skäi , Swedish sked , "spoon" and häi , Swedish hö , "hay"). Intonation (linguistics) In linguistics , intonation

4818-409: The sentence patterns indicated above. Thus, sentence patterns can be thought of as bands whose pitch varies over the course of the sentence, and changes of syllable pitch cause fluctuations within the band. Furthermore, the details of Mandarin intonation are affected by various factors like the tone of the final syllable, the presence or absence of focus (centering of attention) on the final word, and

4891-522: The specific conventions therefore need to be explained in the context of what is being described. However, for general purposes the International Phonetic Alphabet offers the two intonation marks shown in the box at the head of this article. Global rising and falling intonation are marked with a diagonal arrow rising left-to-right [↗︎] and falling left-to-right [↘︎] , respectively. These may be written as part of

4964-473: The three types of sentences by keeping the nuclear intonation constant. The experiment shows some extremely significant results. The vertical level demonstrates four different types of accentuations in Punjabi: The second experiment provides a significant difference between the horizontal level and the vertical level. Cruttenden points out the extreme difficulty of making meaningful comparisons among

5037-409: The two basic sentence pitch contours are rising-falling and rising. However, other within-sentence rises and falls result from the placement of prominence on the stressed syllables of certain words. For declaratives or wh-questions with a final decline, the decline is located as a step-down to the syllable after the last prominently stressed syllable, or as a down-glide on the last syllable itself if it

5110-581: The worker from the weather. In the middle of the twentieth century the large broad roof of barns were sometimes painted with slogans in the United States. Most common of these were the 900 barns painted with ads for Rock City . In the past barns were often used for communal gatherings, such as barn dances . A farm may have buildings of varying shapes and sizes used to shelter large and small animals and other uses. The enclosed pens used to shelter large animals are called stalls and may be located in

5183-509: The | mark indicates a division between intonation units. An influential development in British studies of intonation has been Discourse Intonation, an offshoot of Discourse Analysis first put forward by David Brazil. This approach lays great emphasis on the communicative and informational use of intonation, pointing out its use for distinguishing between presenting new information and referring to old, shared information, as well as signalling

5256-452: Was a cheaper building material. In the mid to late 19th century in the U.S. barn framing methods began to shift away from traditional timber framing to "truss framed" or "plank framed" buildings. Truss or plank framed barns reduced the number of timbers instead using dimensional lumber for the rafters, joists, and sometimes the trusses. The joints began to become bolted or nailed instead of being mortised and tenoned. The inventor and patentee of

5329-422: Was highly complex, each pitch phoneme having four pitch allophones (or allotones); there was also a Terminal Contour to end an intonation clause, as well as four stress phonemes. Some generalizations using this formalism are given below. The American linguist Dwight Bolinger carried on a long campaign to argue that pitch contours were more important in the study of intonation than individual pitch levels. Thus

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