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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).
See Also
External Links
- https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=intonation
- https://sites.google.com/site/linguisticsportafilio/speech-organs
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References
- Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.
