. "\u017E\u00E1dn\u00E1 konferecne se nekonala" . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech" . "comparative study, intonation, nucleus position, tone unit length, word-order, corpus"@en . . . . "Brno Studies in English 22" . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech"@cs . "Mosey, Bryan" . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech"@en . "The present article is a study of two prosodic features, tone unit length and nucleus position. It is based on an anlysis of spoken texts selected from the London-Lund Corpus and the Corpus of Spoken Czech. The study supports the definition of tone units as the phonological realisation of information chunks of a convenient size for processing by both speakers and listeners; the average length of tone units was found to be around 4.3 words with a standard deviation of about 2.7 in both the English and Czech texts. The examined texts, both English and Czech, contained a high percentage (almost 18 %) of one-word tone units. The frequent occurrence of one-word tone units seems to be typical of unprepared conversation. Monologues, as other studies have shown, contain a much lower percentage of one-word tone units. The study suggests that both English and Czech speakers have a strong tendency to place the nucleus towards the end of a tone unit. The tendency seems to be stronger in Czech, where the average n" . "MU" . . "15-21" . . "Chamonikolasov\u00E1, Jana" . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech"@cs . . "2"^^ . . . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech" . "80-210-1421-0" . "7"^^ . . "1"^^ . "14210" . "RIV/00216224:14210/96:00011270!RIV/2005/GA0/142105/N" . "P(GA405/93/1247)" . "830751" . . . . . "The present article is a study of two prosodic features, tone unit length and nucleus position. It is based on an anlysis of spoken texts selected from the London-Lund Corpus and the Corpus of Spoken Czech. The study supports the definition of tone units as the phonological realisation of information chunks of a convenient size for processing by both speakers and listeners; the average length of tone units was found to be around 4.3 words with a standard deviation of about 2.7 in both the English and Czech texts. The examined texts, both English and Czech, contained a high percentage (almost 18 %) of one-word tone units. The frequent occurrence of one-word tone units seems to be typical of unprepared conversation. Monologues, as other studies have shown, contain a much lower percentage of one-word tone units. The study suggests that both English and Czech speakers have a strong tendency to place the nucleus towards the end of a tone unit. The tendency seems to be stronger in Czech, where the average n"@en . "1996-01-01+01:00"^^ . . "RIV/00216224:14210/96:00011270" . "Brno" . "The present article is a study of two prosodic features, tone unit length and nucleus position. It is based on an anlysis of spoken texts selected from the London-Lund Corpus and the Corpus of Spoken Czech. The study supports the definition of tone units as the phonological realisation of information chunks of a convenient size for processing by both speakers and listeners; the average length of tone units was found to be around 4.3 words with a standard deviation of about 2.7 in both the English and Czech texts. The examined texts, both English and Czech, contained a high percentage (almost 18 %) of one-word tone units. The frequent occurrence of one-word tone units seems to be typical of unprepared conversation. Monologues, as other studies have shown, contain a much lower percentage of one-word tone units. The study suggests that both English and Czech speakers have a strong tendency to place the nucleus towards the end of a tone unit. The tendency seems to be stronger in Czech, where the average n"@cs . . "[066681A1C0DB]" . . . . "Nucleus position and tone unit length in English and Czech"@en .