INTONATION AND ITS FUNCTIONS IN THE PERCEPTION AND SPEECHPRODUCTION
The article presents the generated speech intonation entity; attention is paid to intonation delimitation of Russian speech, on the basis of which it turns out individual-authorial of its structure as a linear sequence of the original minimum speech units. Intonation is defined as a multifunctional phenomenon, noted its relation to the subject of speech and his listeners. Are listed intonation functions. For the subject of speech intonation - manner to interpret the transmitted content, but for addressee it is a means of identifying the content of the author. The attention is focused on the importance of understanding the author's intonation for an adequate understanding of text content when reading.