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Here, as is common with wh-questions, there is a rising intonation on the question word, and a falling intonation at the end of the question. In many descriptions of English, the following intonation patterns are distinguished: Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice rises over time. Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls with time.
The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences can end with a rising pitch similar to that typically found in yes–no questions.
A rising boundary tone can often be heard internally in a sentence in some languages, for example, to mark a topic, [13] to mark off items in a list, or following the subordinate clause in a sentence such as "If you like it, please buy it". [14]
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and 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, analogously ...
English tag questions can have a rising or a falling intonation pattern. [3] This can be contrasted with Polish, French or German, for example, where all tags rise, or with the Celtic languages, where all fall.
Researchers have established through longitudinal studies that children have knowledge of intonation and can use it to communicate a specific function across utterances. [7] [8] [9] Compare the two examples below: → Child: "Ball." (flat intonation) - Can mean "That is a ball." → Child: "Ball?" (rising inflection) - Can mean "Where is the ball?"
A polar echo question (also known as a pure echo [2]) repeats some or all of the stimulus, with a rising intonation. It bears some similarity to the rising declarative. A variable echo question involves substituting one (or more) elements of the stimulus with a wh word.
In linguistics, a rising declarative is an utterance which has the syntactic form of a declarative but the rising intonation typically associated with polar interrogatives. [1] Rising declarative: Justin Bieber wants to hang out with me? Falling declarative: Justin Bieber wants to hang out with me. Polar question: Does Justin Bieber want to ...