The role of the Prosodic Structure in the Realization of Speech Acts of Simulated Fear
The article is devoted to the problem of using prosodic structure in differentiation between sincere and insincere emotive speech acts in the German language. As an example for the phonetic experiment the author takes the speech acts of sincere and simulated fear. The author supposes that the high level of variability and the antropophonic character of intonation allow to use a prosodic structure of utterances as a marker of speaker’s insincerity.