Abstract
O NE purpose of the work reported in this paper was the development and assessment of a method for transcribing and analyzing such paralinguistic features of speech as stress, juncture and intonation. The rationale for the study comes as a result of the ideas of Halliday, Bolinger, Pierce, and many other linguists.1 These workers have argued strongly that intonation (pitch), juncture (pause) and stress (emphasis) are of prime importance in the communicative process. These features of speech are generally referred to as prosodics. Stress is employed for the purpose of indicating the importance of certain words and/or syllables and for indicating that a particular part of the utterance contains new information in terms of the speaker's intent. Juncture is used by the speaker to divide and organize the message into what he feels are meaningful units. The functions of intonation are some
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