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  <Title>The Prosodic Transcription of a Corpus of Hong Kong English: Collection Criteria, Transcription System and Preliminary Findings</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> As an important feature of the communication of meaning in English, intonation of other non-native English varieties have also begun to receive interest and attention. At the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, we are attempting to describe the communicative role of intonation in Hong Kong English. By uncovering the similarities and differences of intonation patterns between native and Hong Kong speakers of English, we will be in a position to describe how Hong Kong speakers make use of intonation to communicate meanings, and find out whether or not there is a systematic pattern which we can name &amp;quot;The Intonation system of Hong Kong English&amp;quot;. The findings will hopefully better inform our understanding of Hong Kong English and help the development of English language learning and teaching materials directed at discourse intonation.</Paragraph>
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