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'''Intonation''' refers to the pitch patterns of a spoken language and is often characterized as a language's melodic quality. Aside from reflecting the speaker's emotions or intent, intonation is known to offer insight about an utterance's particular syntax. For example, intonation can change as a function of politeness and certainty, and serves syntactic functions like indicating a question (i.e. intonation rises at the end of a phrase to mark a question in English).
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*[[Prosody (definition)]]
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*[[Stress (definition)]]
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*[[Pitch (definition)]]
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
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*https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=intonation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)
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*https://sites.google.com/site/linguisticsportafilio/speech-organs
 
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The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec3/inton.htm
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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*Ladefoged, D. (2010) ''A Course in Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.
 
[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
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[[Category: Phonetics]]
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[[Category: Phonology]]

Latest revision as of 09:35, 22 January 2021

Intonation refers to the pitch patterns of a spoken language and is often characterized as a language's melodic quality. Aside from reflecting the speaker's emotions or intent, intonation is known to offer insight about an utterance's particular syntax. For example, intonation can change as a function of politeness and certainty, and serves syntactic functions like indicating a question (i.e. intonation rises at the end of a phrase to mark a question in English).

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.