Intonation

Intonation

1. Melody of speech

2. Study

   • Pitch of th voice
     • Rises
     • Falls
     • Linguistics. (Theory)
     • Pragmatics meanings. (Practise)
   • Rythm of speech.

3. whitout it

   • speech is monotonous

4. speakers

   • Make the pitch of the voice
     • Rise
     • Fall
     • Jump
     • Swoop
   • Repertoire of tunes
     • Intonation patterns
       • some speakers are better than others.

5. Learners

   • Usually concentrate on segmental phonetics
   • word stress
   • some will pick it up
     • More or less unconsciously
   • Different intonation patterns
     • Different meanings

6. also known as

   • Prosody
   • Suprasegmental

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