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At 05:25 PM 10/7/2007, Scott Woods wrote:
>In the process of teaching my 7th graders how to read poetry out
>loud, I noticed that, for many of them, they paused at the end of
>each line, regardless of its punctuation, and lowered the tone of
>the last word as though it were followed by a period. I found this
>problem diminished when I worked with my students to distinguish the
>sound of a word followed by a period from that word followed by a
>comma, semicolon, or colon. For instance, "The boy went to the
>store. He bought a loaf of bread. Then he went home." is pronounced
>differently from "The boy went to the store; he bought a loaf of
>bread; then he went home." Or in "Buy several items at the store."
>store is pronounced differently from store in "Buy several items at
>the store: bread, soap, and milk."
> Does anyone know of any research relating to this phenomenon and
> its relationship to instruction? Have others noticed this?
DD: I don't hear a difference in emphasis, or tone, or volume. Is
this regional? Valley talk? I do have a know a woman at the gym that
raises intonation at the end of sentences, where I would put a period
in writing.
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