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  2. Tone contour - Wikipedia

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    Chart invented by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao illustrating the contours of the four tones of Standard Chinese. When the pitch descends, the contour is called a falling tone; when it ascends, a rising tone; when it descends and then returns, a dipping or falling-rising tone; and when it ascends and then returns, it is called a peaking or rising-falling tone.

  3. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Rising declarative - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Rising & Falling - Wikipedia

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    Label: Olmeto: Producer: Layo Paskin, Matthew Benjamin: ... (2007) Rising & Falling (2012) Rising & Falling is the fourth album by electronic music duo Layo ...

  6. Label printer - Wikipedia

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    Brother P-Touch 540 label printer. A label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags). A label printer with built-in keyboard and display for stand-alone use (not connected to a separate computer) is often called a label maker. Label printers are different from ordinary printers because ...

  7. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Here's how to calculate your rising sign, a.k.a. your ascendant sign, and what each one means for your personality, according to professional astrologers.

  9. Rises and falls - Wikipedia

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    In addition, a certain amount of body rise and fall may be achieved by hip action, used in Latin dance, but absolutely proscribed in Standard and Smooth. Rises and falls of the body is a natural phenomenon during casual walking: when feet are apart the body is closer to the ground than when the feet are together.