Intonation as a Distinguishing Property of Predicative and Nominative Meanings in Modern Russian
The article focuses on the role of the Russian intonation to express grammatical meanings in the utterance: predicative, nominative meanings, grammatical theme and rheme; the acoustic mechanism of basic syntactic relations is described. The close relationship between predication and urgent division of the sentence is proved. The experimental data are interpreted in the research. The experiment was conducted in the phonetic laboratory of Asian and African studies of Moscow State University.