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intonation contour

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meanings of intonationand contour


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intonation
noun
uk /ˌɪn.təˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌɪn.təˈneɪ.ʃən/
the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking, especially when this has an effect on the meaning of what ...
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contour
noun[C]
uk /ˈkɒn.tɔːr/ us /ˈkɑːn.tʊr/
the shape of a mass of land or other object, especially its curved surface or the curved shape formed by its ...
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Examples of intonation contour


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Chafe 1994 ties prosodic phenomena such as types of intonationcontour to cognitive processes taking place during verbalization.
Additional evidence for this interpretation is the preferred intonationcontour on children's repeats.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonationcontour and secondarily on pause duration.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonationcontour and, secondarily, on pause duration.
The adults manipulated the length of pink and green, the accompanying intonationcontour and the pauses following them, to indicate the grouping of the blocks.
The tester presents items with broad focus, using an intonationcontour that does not highlight either the colour or the vehicle.
In the second version, each brand is accentuated with a breath pause and new intonationcontour.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonationcontour, and secondarily on pause duration.
Phoneme-monitoring reaction time as a function of preceding intonationcontour.
Using the contrasting pitch accent, the teacher refocuses the stress to wouldn't and uses a rising intonationcontour on electrocuted.
The period indicates a falling, or final, intonationcontour, not necessarily the end of a sentence.
We cannot attribute a different tone or intonationcontour to spoken utterances we hear; but we can do that, and far more, while reading.
The preponderant intonationcontour across all types of utterances and all data points is a falling or rise-falling one.
An utterance was separated from a subsequent utterance primarily on intonationcontour, but also on pause duration.
In the third version, the three brands are rattled off together between breath pauses and one intonationcontour.
The intonationcontour of such utterances is mostly falling.
These two coordinated possible clauses in a sentence are not separated by any kind of prosodic break; on the contrary, they are integrated into one prosodically cohesive intonationcontour.
For example, in contrast to successive single-word utterances, ' real ' two-word utterances are supposed to be characterized by a unifying intonationcontour and a lack of an intervening pause.
The shortcomings of this chapter lie first of all in its diffuse structure, and second in the failure to contextualize the intonationcontour in terms of previous literature.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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