INTONATION GROUPS IN ARABIC (MAINLY IN THE HOLY QURAN)

Abstract

This research is concerned with intonation groups in Arabic with special reference to the pausing marks in the Holy Quran. This research underlines the distribution of tone- groups in Arabic which could help non- native speakers of Arabic know the similarities and differences between Arabic and their language regarding the distribution of tone-groups. For English people, they will notice the big similarities between English and Arabic in the distribution of tone groups. Tone groups in Arabic correspond to single clause utterances. Arabic speakers can combine two or more clauses in one tone group. Interrelation between syntactic cohesion, significant information units, and semantic considerations organized by some prosodic features as pauses which have been concentrated on in this research; dictate the division of tone groups. This study is based on a basically inductive approach to the analysis of linguistic meaning. The analyst's introspection and native intuition is the benchmark of carrying out the analysis.