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Practice these dialogues using the 5 basic rules of intonation: falling, rising, choice, list, double-rise . Also, pay attention to the personality and emotion portrayed by your pitch.
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-Listen to the examples and decide which pattern is used in the answers. • English Intonation uses three PATTERNS: FALL \, RISE /, & FALL-RISE \/. • PATTERNS can show a speaker’s attitude to their words.
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Intonation is a layer of meaning beyond words and helps speakers communicate meaning through the rise and fall of the voice. The patterns of rise and fall are described as ‘tones’.
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Intonation is a complex system of meaning communicated through the rise and fall of a speaker's voice. English speakers use it to communicate many different types of meaning: relational e.g. how 'open', friendly or 'closed' we are towards a listener. How does it work? the voice UP ( ) or DOWN ( ).
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May 1, 2015 · This chapter first presents the various approaches to the description and annotation of intonation and then gives an account of its contribution to meaning.
Rising and falling intonation patterns are an important part of American English. These intonation patterns do for your speech what punctuation does for your writing. They indicate pauses, stops, and questions and also communicate emotions.
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Tone refers to pitch patterns that make lexical, grammatical or morphological contrasts in many languages. Intonation refers to the melodic facet of prosody, although the two terms are sometimes interchangeable.
