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Sunday, January 6, 2013

What is Intonation?



It refers to the rise and fall of the voice in speech shared by the speaker or oral performer just to convey its clear meaning. It is also the pitch contour of a phrase or sentence.

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  1. Intonation is a word used to refer to how a sentence sounds. How a sentence sounds if it's a question sounds different from how a sentence sounds if it's a statement. If you say a sentence out loud, first as a question and then as a statement, you'll hear the difference in sound.

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  2. Intonation is a technique used in storytelling as well as theater. Intonation refers to the raising and lowering of the tone of one's voice.

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  3. Intonation is a word used to refer to how a sentence sounds. How a sentence sounds if it's a question sounds different from how a sentence sounds if it's a statement. If you say a sentence out loud, first as a question and then as a statement, you'll hear the difference in sound.

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  4. Intonation is primarily a matter of pitch variation, it is important to be aware that functions attributed to intonation such as the expression of attitudes and emotions, or highlighting aspects of grammatical structure, almost always involve concomitant variation in other prosodic features.

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  5. Intonation is the system of levels (rising and falling) and variations in pitch sequences within speech.

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  6. Intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the difference between statement and question, and between different types of question, focussing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction.

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  7. convey meaningful information about the
    communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech

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