Abstract

ABSTRACTThe position of the nucleus is investigated in this paper. The nucleus plays an essential role in utterance meaning characterization. The speaker directs the listener's attention to the most important element in an utterance. They give more prominence to the element that he recognizes as the most informative one. The shift in the position of the nucleus from a word to another brings about a significant change in meaning. The speaker chooses an element as the nucleus according to certain factors like the focus of information, contrast, the old and new information, and astonishment.

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