TY - JOUR
AU - DI PIETRO, ROBERT
AB - 272 REVIEWS exponents of discourse functions. Such decisions will have to be informed of course by a knowledge of learner needs on the understanding that the kinds of social relations of con- vergence/divergence which the foreign learner is likely to enter into outside the classroom will in the nature of things tend to be of a limited special category. Perhaps the two least satisfactory areas of description in the book are of termination and the choice of o tone. The function of choices within the former as delimiting units of both the phonological (pitch sequences) and discourse hierarchies (moves) produces con- fusion as t o the relationship between the different levels of description. The exact domain of operation of the o tone remains ambiguous: it is not clear whether its phonetic realiza- tion as level pitch is restricted to the tonic, or whether it extends over the syllables of the 'enclitic' (i.e. post-tonic) segment of the tone-unit and if so, whether all syllables must merely be level or of the same pitch level. This leads to potential problems in the trans- cripts of the recordings, where the transcription of o tone in 'hesitating' or 'incomplete' tone-units appears to be 
TI - REVIEWS
JF - Applied Linguistics
DO - 10.1093/applin/III.3.272
DA - 1982-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reviews-H3ETPYeso5
SP - 272
EP - 276
VL - III
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -