• In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal...
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  • Look up intonation, intonate, or intonational in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intonation may refer to: Intonation (linguistics), variation of speaking...
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  • syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm. Such elements are known as suprasegmentals. Prosody...
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  • (HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences...
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  • indicated by the key signature A change in tone of voice; see Intonation (linguistics) All pages with titles beginning with Inflection All pages with...
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  • In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously...
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  • to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections...
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    recipe said you could use either.] In speech, these are distinguishable by intonation. An open question (also called a variable question, non-polar question...
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  • rätt/rett stor instead of inte särskilt stor). At the same time is the intonation (linguistics) a little closer to Swedish. Fastlande has the literal meaning...
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  • In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic...
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  • In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines...
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    povres, "the poor". Agreement (linguistics) Diction Intonation (linguistics) Introflection ʾIʿrab Lexeme Marker (linguistics) Morpheme Nominal TAM Periphrasis...
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  • Is it treatable?, in which the word treatable is marked H*L-L%. Intonation (linguistics) ToBI Liberman (1975), p. 286. Pierrehumbert (1980), p. 26. Cruttenden...
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  • linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:...
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  • interrogativus. According to some paleographers, it may have indicated intonation, perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes. Another theory...
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  • This is common among friends in a social setting. Intimate: Non-public; intonation more important than wording or grammar; private vocabulary. Also includes...
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  • portions by a language. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech. Three alternative ways in which a language...
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    In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". The term is most used...
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  • Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...
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  • Theme in English (Part 2)", Journal of Linguistics, 3: 206 Ladd, Robert D. (1980), The structure of intonational meaning: Evidence from English, Bloomington:...
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  • LGBT linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBT communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by...
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  • sentence perspective, Developing the Swedish intonation model, Working Papers, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Lund Silverman,...
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  • [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis...
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    invented examples. Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis...
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  • specific prosodic properties. These properties can be those of stress, intonation (a single pitch and rhythm contour), or tonal patterns. Prosodic units...
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  • also has global intonation — for instance, interrogative sentences have rising intonation and negative sentences have lower-pitch intonation. Urak Lawoi’...
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  • awe are frequently conveyed through paralinguistic mechanisms such as intonation, facial expression, and gesture, and thus require recourse to punctuation...
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    Forensic linguistics, legal linguistics, or language and the law, is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and insights to the forensic context...
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    (1969). Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crystal, David (1971). Linguistics. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Crystal...
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  • In linguistics, a copula (pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement,...
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