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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. 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.

  6. Falling and rising factorials - Wikipedia

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    Thus many identities on binomial coefficients carry over to the falling and rising factorials. The rising and falling factorials are well defined in any unital ring, and therefore can be taken to be, for example, a complex number, including negative integers, or a polynomial with complex coefficients, or any complex-valued function.

  7. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    Research published in 1986, regarding vernacular speech in Sydney, suggested that high rising terminal was used more than twice as often by young people than older people, and was more common among women than men. [4] In other words, HRT was more common among women born between 1950 and 1970, than among men born before 1950.

  8. Shepard tone - Wikipedia

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    The 2018 track "Always Ascending" by Franz Ferdinand from the album of the same name features a rising Shepard tone throughout the song. The video for the song echoes the effect, with the camera apparently rising continually throughout. [24] In Sumio Kobayashi's piano work "Unreal Rain", the Shepard tone is entirely used. [25] [clarification ...

  9. Falling Up (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins. It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just ...