Intonation (definition)

Intonation refers to the pitch of sounds in a language that may give some indication of syntactic information. For example in English a rising intonation at the end of a phrase indicates a question.

See Also

• Prosody (definition)

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)
• http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec3/inton.htm

References

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