Research directed towards exploring the nature of clinical discourse has
targeted grammar and pragmatics but has rarely investigated the
patterns of prosody. The prosody of six speech-language pathologists
(SLPs) was analysed in therapy and nontherapy contexts. The results
suggest that SLPs use certain aspects of prosody differently in therapy
and nontherapy contexts.
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